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Fiction. SWIM entwines the present with those past actions and consequences that have brought Kat to the Greek mountain village where her father was born. She swims laps while her fourteen-year-old daughter reclines on a chaise lounge, poolside, reading a book. Without ever leaving the pool we enter discrete scenes with Kat's parents, daughter, husband and lover. On entering each point in this history, Kat reveals an undertow of sound, rhythm and words in their rippling meanings. Each new lap moves Kat closer to her impending decision: whether she will leave her husband. But the deeper tension within this innovative novel derives from the writing itself--its vital urgency that extends the possibilities of narrative beyond the fixed and into the fluid.
About the author
MARIANNE APOSTOLIDES is an award-winning author of eight books, which have been translated and published in over a dozen countries. Her books include
I Can't Get You Out of My Mind (finalist for the Foreword INDIES Award in Science Fiction),
Deep Salt Water, Voluptuous Pleasure (listed among the
Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of 2012), and
Swim. She is a two-time recipient of the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and winner of the K.M. Hunter Award for Literature. Apostolides grew up in suburban New York and lives in Toronto, Canada.
