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Overview

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970 Boston. From the outside, her parents’ lifestyle appears enviable—a world defined by cocktail parties, expensive cars, and live-in maids to care for their children—but inside their five-bedroom house, all is not well for the Kunitz family. Coming home from school, Sarah finds her well-dressed, pill-popping mother lying disheveled on their living room couch. At night, to escape their parents’ arguments, Sarah and her oldest brother, Peter, find solace in music, while her two younger brothers retreat to their rooms and imaginary lives.

Any vestige of decorum and stability drains away when their mother dies in a car crash one terrible winter day. Soon after, their father, a self-absorbed, bombastic professor begins an affair with a younger colleague. Sarah, aggrieved, dives into two summer romances that lead to unforeseen consequences.

In a story that will make you laugh and cry, Night Swim shows how a family, bound by heartache, learns to love again.

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Keener's debut novel is a coming-of-age story that begins, like so many remembrances, with a voice from the past—middle-aged Sarah Kunitz is married with three grown children, but is called back to her own childhood when an unexpected email arrives from Mickey Fineburg, the boy she kissed under a broken pool table at age eight. The majority of the novel comprises vivid vignettes wherein Sarah recalls being a teenager in 1970s upper-class suburban Boston, the only daughter among three brothers. When Sarah's mother tragically dies in a car crash, the young protagonist is prematurely propelled into adulthood and its concomitant dramas of sex, self-discovery, and coping with inevitable loss. While each chapter feels self-sufficient, their loose ordering lends a dreamlike quality to the novel, appropriate for a recollection begun at a "deep hour" of night, when time "doesn't follow lines but circles and dips into underwater caves." Though occasionally belabored by grander themes for the most part left unexplored (e.g., Sarah's Jewish heritage and brushes with anti-Semitism), as well as unbalanced language (compare the weirdly comic description of a sexual encounter as "a quick, slippery ride" with the poetically strange notion of the sun resembling a fetus), Keener's evocation of a young woman coming into her own is nevertheless moving. (Jan.)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781936558261
  • Publisher: Fiction Studio
  • Publication date: 1/10/2012
  • Pages: 284
  • Sales rank: 155,126
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 1.10 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 12, 2012

    A Layered and Lovely Debut

    "Night Swim is such a sweet and delightful read at times, and yet so sad and nearly brutal in its honesty at others. The book is perfectly paced. I finished in two sittings, because I just could not put it down. I can't wait to see what Jessica Keener does next."

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 19, 2012

    Beautifully written

    The Kunitz family looks perfect on the outside, but on the inside they are falling apart. Sarah's mother is clearly unhappy and seems stuck in the past when her family needs her most. Yet, she is described so eloquently that she doesn't seem like a bad mother, but rather, like an individual that wasn't quite meant for this world. Sarah's father wants to keep his family whole but can't quite seem to get control, which he is well aware. Sarah and her siblings attempt to navigate the world the best way they know how. Sarah and Peter disappear into their music and the younger siblings disappear into the world of fantasy, animals, and books.
    Tragedy strikes and like many of teenagers, Sarah doesn't know how to cope. Unfortunately there is little help to guide her way.

    Oh a tangled web Ms. Keener weaves. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this story, but I find it quite difficult to write the review. It's one of those stories where you try to describe it but in the end you say, "Well you just had to be there." I can't write a description or synopsis of this book to fully describe this book because the beauty is in the writing and how Ms. Keener unveils each part of the story. She takes an ordinary, and perhaps sad, story and weaves it into a song that you can't quite get out of your head. The story sounds quite simple but it is so much more than that. The writing is fabulous, making the reader turn each page with eagerness and trepidation at the same time. The characters are flawed and human. I wanted to shake each and every one of them but thought they needed a few hugs as well. While I wouldn't call this book, plot driven, I did find myself tearing through the pages.

    Ms. Keener creates a complex story that deals with loss, racism, sex, and consequences. Yet, hope and healing seems to be the true theme. While the story is touching, it is the writing that sets it apart from all the rest.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 8, 2012

    Beautifully written novel about a girl, her family and the loss

    Beautifully written novel about a girl, her family and the loss of her dysfunctional mother. It is very touching and and interesting.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 25, 2012

    A work of fiction so well written, one would think it's a true story

    This family went from being bullied by the father to a tragedy tnay changes them forever.i found myself wanting to bake a pan of cookies then wrapping my arms around them so they could grieve properly.
    Such a good book that will follow you everywhere until you give in and just finish it already

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted January 28, 2012

    tender, movinmg, superb

    What a splendid, passionate novel. I LOVED THIS. I felt inside each character, their sorrow and their "solos" were mine, too. Sarah could have been my friend sitting behind me in school and the author made me want to turn around and see her, see inside her. There is such a beauty to the work as well, its language, its quietness, the way it is kind of separate "solos" played without grandiosity, by people we recognize. Just the human yearnings and vulnerabilities that make us feel so fragile, that we all recognize as our own.
    I highly recommended this sensitive, unusual book. A tender debut by an author I'll be watching closely from now on.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 25, 2012

    Kenna

    Its fine

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 25, 2012

    Will

    Sorry i was gone...

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 10, 2012

    Disappointing

    For some reason this book kept you interested enough to keep reading it. I kept waiting for something "more" to happen. It never did! I would not recommend this book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 6, 2012

    Very disappointing

    I found this book to be very boring. Very disappointed.

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  • Posted May 6, 2012

    Good short read

    Short read, but holds your interest. Will watch for more from Jessica Keener

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 15, 2012

    Sunstar-nursey

    Inside a big lilac bush is the nursey. In new-leaf and green-leaf the small purple blossoms create a sweet scent that envolopes the entire camp. This is perhaps one of the happiest places in the camp.~Happy Sunstar

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 11, 2012

    So so

    Not really my cup of tea

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