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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 you’re already who you want to be.
At
two, Delores’s 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, she’s boarding a Greyhound
bus leaving the Bronx for sunny Weeki Wachee Springs, a
tacky roadside attraction in the shadow of Walt Disney’s 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
hopefuls—girls 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 that’ll have
you believing in the impossible before the final
page.
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