Julie Otsuka
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER • From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mother’s dementia and her daughter’s love" (The Washington Post).
The swimmers are unknown...
The swimmers are unknown...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
5) The swimmers
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool"--
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...
Author
Publisher
Duomo ediciones es un sello de Antonio Vallardi Editore S.u.r.l
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Los nadadores van y vienen en el agua. No saben que su rutina personal, privada y silenciosa, es una pieza fundamental de un engranaje invisible y siempre en equilibrio. De pronto, una grieta aparece en el fondo de la piscina. Expulsados del agua, arrojados a un mundo seco, deberán afrontar la realidad. Y también tendrá que hacerlo Alice, cuyos recuerdos se empañan cada vez más. El agua era la última defensa. Ahora su hija ha vuelto, para ser...
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.
Tom Perrotta explains in his introduction that "all of [these stories] took me somewhere I didn't expect to go, and jolted me into that state of heightened awareness and emotional receptivity that's one of the great rewards of reading good fiction." The characters in these stories seek to discover something lacking in their life. Their stories...
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--