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FLORENCE ADLER SWIMS FOREVER
This novel is a beautifully written debut story about the fragile ties that keep family together and our need to find love and atonement after a great loss.
It's the summer of 1934 and Florence Adler has returned home to Atlantic City from college, intent on swimming the English Channel by summer's end. When she drowns, while out on a training swim, she leaves behind seven family members and friends who must navigate her loss over the course of the summerand beyond.
Told from rotating points of view, the novel features a diverse cast of richly drawn and unforgettable characters. There is Florence's older sister, Fannie, who is pregnant again after recently losing a baby. She's on bed rest at Atlantic City Hospital while her seven-year-old daughter, Gussie, and her husband, Isaac, make do without her. There are Fannie and Florence's parents, Esther and Joseph, who have built Adler's Bakery from the ground up and who thought, until now, that they had realized the American dream. Anna is a young woman, almost exactly Florence's age, who Joseph recently helped emigrate from Nazi Germany. And there's Stuart who is a lifeguard with the Atlantic City Beach Patrol and heir to a Boardwalk hotel that doesn't serve Jewish guests.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, Esther decides that the family must keep the news of Florence's death a secret - at least until Fannie has delivered a healthy baby. This decision and its resulting tensions, becomes the backdrop against which other family secrets are slowly revealed. The novel examines the secrets we keep for the benefit of others and whether we have the right to decide what people get to know about their own lives.
It's a big-hearted family saga that examines our tendency to keep secrets from the people we most love. The novel offers a trenchant and often humorous look at the dysfunctional relationships inherent to every family. It is both a bit of a page-turner with the second half unfolding into a love story that is both captivating and surprising, and ultimately, uplifting.
Florence Adler Swims Forever is based on a true story that took place in Rachel's family more than eighty years ago, a correspondence that she addresses in her Author's Note at the end of the book.
Told from rotating points of view, the novel features a diverse cast of richly drawn and unforgettable characters. There is Florence's older sister, Fannie, who is pregnant again after recently losing a baby. She's on bed rest at Atlantic City Hospital while her seven-year-old daughter, Gussie, and her husband, Isaac, make do without her. There are Fannie and Florence's parents, Esther and Joseph, who have built Adler's Bakery from the ground up and who thought, until now, that they had realized the American dream. Anna is a young woman, almost exactly Florence's age, who Joseph recently helped emigrate from Nazi Germany. And there's Stuart who is a lifeguard with the Atlantic City Beach Patrol and heir to a Boardwalk hotel that doesn't serve Jewish guests.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, Esther decides that the family must keep the news of Florence's death a secret - at least until Fannie has delivered a healthy baby. This decision and its resulting tensions, becomes the backdrop against which other family secrets are slowly revealed. The novel examines the secrets we keep for the benefit of others and whether we have the right to decide what people get to know about their own lives.
It's a big-hearted family saga that examines our tendency to keep secrets from the people we most love. The novel offers a trenchant and often humorous look at the dysfunctional relationships inherent to every family. It is both a bit of a page-turner with the second half unfolding into a love story that is both captivating and surprising, and ultimately, uplifting.
Florence Adler Swims Forever is based on a true story that took place in Rachel's family more than eighty years ago, a correspondence that she addresses in her Author's Note at the end of the book.
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