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Swim Back To Me

Ann Packer

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Added by evik. Last update: Monday 2011/05/16

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A wife struggles to make sense of her husband’s sudden disappearance. A mother mourns her teenage son through the music collection he left behind. A woman shepherds her estranged parents through her brother’s wedding and reflects on the year her family collapsed. A young man comes to grips with the joy—and vulnerability—of impending fatherhood. And, in the masterful opening novella, two teenagers from very different families forge a sustaining friendship, only to discover the disruptive and unsettling power of sex.

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Author:	Ann Packer
Year:	2011
# of Pages:	225

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The Green Fielder (Bonnie Brody)

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Ann Packer has matured so much in her writing since The Dive From Clausen’s Pier. She is well on her way to becoming a master.

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Dallas Morning News (JENNY SHANK)

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Deceptively simple and full of moral complications, the stories in Swim Back to Me are potent and deftly written.

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Bookreporter (Norah Piehl)

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Many of the stories focus on the phenomenon of loss, whether dramatic and irrevocable (as in death) or more subtle (as in the alteration of fundamental relationships).

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Barnes&Noble.com (Jane Ciabattari)

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Packer captures a lifetime of repercussions in that coolly calibrated response.

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Packer (The Dive from Clausen's Pier) presents complex human relationships with unsentimental compassion. (Apr.)

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Kirkus Reviews (Jennifer Wilson)

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In this bestselling author’s new book of short stories, Swim Back to Me, she examines with deft precision human souls experiencing deep loss or family strain.

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San Francisco Chronicle (Joan Frank)

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"Swim Back to Me" (two novellas bookending four short stories), will probably attract comparable praise, as it shares with the above works recognizable earmarks of Packer's skills.

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Good Reads.com

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Swim Back to Me showcases one of our most vibrant talents at the height of her powers—a book that belongs beside Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and Amy Bloom’s Where the God of Love Hangs Out.

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