02108cam a2200361 i 4500 549599177 TxAuBib 20220228120000.0 210722s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021035576 9780593321331 hardcover $23.00 0593321332 hardcover $23.00 (OCoLC)1252762285 TxAuBib rda Otsuka, Julie, 1962- The swimmers / Julie Otsuka. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. 175 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool"-- Provided by publisher. The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against the darkness of her encroaching dementia. Without the fellowship of other swimmers and the routine of her daily laps she is plunged into dislocation and chaos, swept into memories of her childhood and the Japanese internment camp in which she spent the war. Narrated by Alice's daughter, who witnesses her stark and devastating decline, The Swimmers is a searing, intimate story of mothers and daughters, and the sorrows of implacable loss, written in spellbinding, incantatory prose. 20220228. Swimmers Fiction. Japanese Americans Fiction. Dementia Patients Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels. Novels.