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Bantam Discovery
September 2008
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Featuring: Delores Walker
336 pages
ISBN: 0385339771
EAN: 9780385339773
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Women's Fiction
Sometimes to be who you really are, you have
to pretend youβre already who you want to be.
At two, Deloresβs mother dropped her into the shallow end of a lake, trusting instinct would teach her daughter to swim. From then on, the water is where Delores Walker feels most at home. Now, nearly seventeen, sheβs boarding a Greyhound bus leaving the Bronx for sunny Weeki Wachee Springs, a tacky roadside attraction in the shadow of Walt Disneyβs new Florida phenomenon.
With a hundred silver dollars left behind by her runaway dad, Delores is chasing her dream of being a mermaid with a group of other aquatic hopefulsβgirls just as awkward and uncertain out of water as they are beautiful and graceful in it. And in this make-believe world of sequined tails and amphibious fantasy, Delores will learn some very real lessons about growing up and surviving in a world where everyone sometimes feels like a fish out of water.
A heartfelt novel of coming-of-age no matter what age you are, populated with characters offbeat, outcast, and thoroughly lovable, Swim to Me is filled with the kind of wise magic thatβll have you believing in the impossible before the final page.
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