Swimming

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the weekend Aaron Wheeler brings his girlfriend Suzanne home changes everything. Suzanne's presence ignites long-brewing tensions between Aaron and his younger brother Jack, exacerbated by her attraction to Jack. the weekend ends in tragedy with Jack's death. Lila, Aaron and Jack's younger sister, is suddenly an only child - Jack is dead and Aaron has disappeared. the rest of her life is spent drifting, searching for her missing older brother. Jack's death was an accident, so why can't Aaron come home then finally Lila tracks down Aaron and discovers the truth. About Aaron, about Jack and Suzanne, and about the events of that long-ago night that changed her life forever.

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"Joanna Hershon has a gift for choreographing a group of characters in space and in time. She is persuasive with moments of sexual passion, and she knows how to make them last for the reader long after the lovemaking is over. In her novel, the past pulses in the present, and we experience these lives with real sorrow, and real hope."
-Frederick Busch, bestselling author of Girls and The Night Inspector

"Reading Joanna Hershon's Swimming is like diving in over your head- intoxicating and terrifying at once. Not since Jane Hamilton's Map of the World have I read such an affecting tale of memory and loss. I couldn't put it down."
-Sheri Holman, bestselling author of The Dress Lodger

From the Hardcover edition.

Author Bio

Joanna Hershon lives in the US. Swimming is her first novel.