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Also by Ann Packer:

Some Bright Nowhere, November 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Swim Back To Me, April 2011
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Songs Without Words, September 2007
Hardcover
The Dive From Clausen's Pier, April 2003
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THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN'S PIER
By: Ann Packer

Vintage
April 2003
On Sale: April 8, 2003
432 pages
ISBN: 0375727132
EAN: 9780375727139
Paperback
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Fiction

How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer's intimate and emotionally thrilling new novel, which has won its author comparisons with Jane Hamilton and Sue Miller.

At the age of twenty-three Carrie Bell has spent her entire life in Wisconsin, with the same best friend and the same dependable, easygoing, high school sweetheart. Now to her dismay she has begun to find this life suffocating and is considering leaving it--and Mike--behind. But when Mike is paralyzed in a diving accident, leaving seems unforgivable and yet more necessary than ever. The Dive from Clausen's Pier animates this dilemma--and Carrie's startling response to it--with the narrative assurance, exacting realism, and moral complexity we expect from the very best fiction.

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