Anthony winner for Best First Book -- a great ending twist
"If I'd blinked, I would have missed it. But I didn't,
and I saw something fall from the rear deck of the opposite
ferry: a small, wide-eyed human face, in one tiny frozen
moment, as it plummeted toward the water." When she witnesses a small child tumbling from a ferry into
Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking.
Harrowing moments later, she bobs to the surface, pulling a
terrified little boy with her. As the ferry disappears into
the distance, she begins a bone-chilling swim nearly a mile
to shore towing a tiny passenger. Surprisingly, he speaks only French. He'll acknowledge that
his name is Paul; otherwise, he's resolutely mute. Troy assumes that Paul's frantic parents will be in touch
with the police or the press. But what follows is a shocking
and deafening silence. And Troy, a freelance writer, finds
herself as fiercely determined to protect Paul as she is to
find out what happened to him. She'll need skill and
courage to survive and protect her charge and herself. Sara J. Henry's powerful and compelling Learning to
Swim will move and disturb readers right up to its
shattering conclusion.
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