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Night Swim, by Jessica Keener
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“This gripping first novel announces the arrival of a strong, distinct and fully evolved new voice.” – Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD “An amazing new literary voice, Jessica Keener explores the fine-laced network of tangled familial relations in language both bold and intricate. Night Swim is the deeply moving and devastatingly beautiful work of a fearless writer.” – Sara Gruen, New York Times bestselling author of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS “This earnest debut centers on Sarah as she tunnels through new depths of loneliness.” – The New York Times “Keener’s observations perfectly capture a certain kind of 1970s adolescence: the adults who tried too hard, the sudden appearance of a joint when in the presence of older cousins, the way a grownup party could spin from fun to disturbing in a blink. Most exhilaratingly, she taps into the thrilling moments when a girl of 16 can see her future, whether in music or books or a boy’s smile.” – Boston Globe NATIONAL BESTSELLER 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 a family tragedy occurs 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.
Night Swim, by Jessica Keener - Amazon Sales Rank: #1048747 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-01
- Released on: 2015-06-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
Night Swim, by Jessica Keener From Booklist When her mother is killed in a car accident, Sarah, 16, lives in “a cavity of pain,” and each chapter in this eloquent first novel captures the teen’s anger, guilt, loneliness, and sorrow at her wrenching loss. Part of a Jewish family in a rich 1970s Boston neighborhood, she is not into politics, uninterested in Nixon and Vietnam, not much bothered by the occasional “dirty Jew” slur she hears at school. She likes comics and music and her gorgeous classmate Anthony. What does enrage her is Dad’s relationship with his new girlfriend. Always true to the teen’s viewpoint, the spare prose will hold readers as Sarah fights with her brothers, bonds with the housekeeper, tries to blame her dad for the accident (why did he let Mama drive alone?), and deals with her first sexual relationship. Rooted in personal sorrow, this memorable debut will strike a universal chord with readers: “Life was full of befores and afters.” --Hazel Rochman
Review "This memorable debut will strike a universal chord with readers--" Booklist _ "Keener's observations perfectly capture a certain kind of 1970s adolescence"--The Boston Globe_"This earnest debut centers on Sarah as she tunnels through new depths of loneliness...moving." --The New York Times_ "Keener's writing is lovely; she manages to build sentences that are both precise and ornate."Jewish Book Council"--a masterfully told tale. The emotional depth of this novel has me constantly recommending it to friends in book clubs." Largehearted Boy_"Keener isn't afraid to tackle controversial topics and meets them head on, with strength and precision in her writing that's not only beautiful, but poetically lyrical--" A Soul Unsung"this one was near perfection...and I very rarely say that. This is an author I will be following." 5 stars, Books Like Breathing "Keener's prose is spectacular, almost poetic. I found myself rereading many of the passages just to experience the beauty of her written word. She gives the reader the gift of a wonderful, honest, coming-of-age story. At just under 300 pages it is not a long read, but one that will resonate." Jenn's BookshelvesNight Swim is a beautifully written coming-of-age story that focuses on the mother-daughter relationship.Book clubs will find a lot to talk about, including parenting, grieving, teen sex, sibling relationships, and the healing power of music." Candace, She Knows.com
From the Author I began writing Night Swim soon after my son was born. Becoming a parent - a mother - for the first time sparked a new creative seed in me. I wanted to delve back into a series of childhood events that haunted me for decades - events that included the suicide of my best friend's mother, the loss of my father's business, my family's sudden plummet in financial status, and the slippery nature of material wealth and how it fails to protect families from emotional uncertainty and darkness. _I wanted to go back to 1970 and create a fictional family to see how the parents and their children would deal with personal and social challenges of the time. How would my protagonist, Sarah, struggle through complex, emotional stuff, even if some of this "stuff" was unsolvable? _ I created a fictional family - the Kunitz family - so that I could swim freely into these murky undercurrents of emotions that most of us find difficult to face - emotions of discontent, disappointment, grief, loss and failure that burden our past. I also created the Kunitz family as a means to search and recover what buoys us all in our most difficult times - music, talent, faith, friendship, understanding, love, romance - to rediscover what keeps us afloat. _Currently, I'm finishing a new novel, set in Budapest in the mid 1990s.
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27 of 31 people found the following review helpful. GET YOUR COPY NOW!!! SUPERLATIVE!!! By Meg Tuite Night Swim is an exemplary coming-of age story of sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz. Jessica Keener leads us into the deeper waters of the family angst with a raging father and a mother who is but a shadow of herself, barely there, and three younger brothers who survive the inner turmoil through music, books and the fantasy world of a child.Keener doesn't shy away from class issues, race issues, extreme loss and mourning, injustice, anti-Semitism, psychological abuse by the father and Sarah's first teenage experiences with sex.Keener's words are fluid like music, which she quotes throughout the book, as Sarah moves through her familial world trying to understand it. When Sarah's mom dies in what is construed as a passive suicide, the youngest son, Elliot, is the wise soul that Sarah finds consolation in. "In his nine-year-old mind that had matured emotionally beyond the clumsiness of his body, he said that God was like clay and that all things on earth came in different shapes - including mother - and that mother had simply been remolded, but still remained a part of us."Keener is a master at building the narrative slowly and rhythmically. Sarah gains her confidence, her voice and her independence through the beautiful relationships she shares with her brothers, the maids and her parents in this heart wrenching and unforgettable story of the underbelly of a family who appear to have it all from the outside, yet behind those curtains there is a restrained hell breaking loose.Keener rips through to the core of what matters most in life - letting go of the secrets and revealing the truth. Night Swim is a superlative novel and a smooth read. It's one of those books you never want to come to an end.I highly recommend Night Swim to all! Order your copy now! You will be happy that you did!
22 of 25 people found the following review helpful. disappointing By Diplocaulus This book was on sale and nearly every review I read, even the negative ones, praised its lovely prose. I thought I'd give it a try. It had been a long time since I'd read a book like this.But it frustrated me. The prose was lovely; it was true. Keener has a talent for weaving a unique and evocative phrase. But I feel as if the story and its themes didn't match the depth of her writing skill.Keener drives almost absent-mindedly through this tale of a teenage girl dealing with the grief of her mother's death. That backbone to the story seems to get lost in crushes, drug use, sex, bigotry, and music. Time skips along, huge chunks of life go missing, gulped away as the reader is introduced to a new series of moments that Keener has deemed noteworthy. Don't get me wrong, the author vividly describes all of these experiences with the kind of detail and craft most authors skip out on. But they just seem loose, barely connected by the wisps of grief courting the edges of the story.I felt like the protagonist, Sarah, wasn't going anywhere. And, although I'm sure Sarah felt that way (especially because Keener liked to build paragraphs out of the questions wheeling through Sarah's mind), I didn't want to feel that way as a reader. Meanwhile, as aimless as Sarah seemed, I sometimes felt like Keener was just going through a recipe for "litfic novel." Here were the allusions to pop culture. Here were the repeating symbols (tunnels and funnels came up a lot). Here were the finely-crafted sentences describing the emotional heartbeats of a life-changing moment. After a while I got frustrated and just wanted the book to be over so I could move on to something that might have a few more surprises, a few imperfections, and not feel so contrived.
24 of 29 people found the following review helpful. Boring... By JHH Sorry to deviate from the glowing reviews, but this book was boring and stereotypical. I felt like anything that could happen did happen. This book tried to wrestle with a lot of issues, but ended up glossing over them. (Almost reminded me of Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons, but thank god not that long!) Also, I did not like the fact that at the beginning of the book, we were introduced to Mickey, but he was never really heard of again. The times when she flashed back to the present was very disruptive and did not, in my mind, do anything for the novel until the end. And the ending itself... very abrupt. I am glad I downloaded this for free.
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