Swim Back To Me
  • Published: 15 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781400079735
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $37.99

Swim Back To Me

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Ann Packer, author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Dive from Clausen's Pier and Songs Without Words, brings us a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories. Shimmering with psychological precision and unfailing intelligence, Swim Back to Me is Packer's most enticing work yet.

Ann Packer is one of our most talented observers of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils. In these unforgettable, emotionally searing stories, she explores the moral predicaments that define our lives, the frailty of ordinary grace, and the ways in which we are shattered and remade by loss.
  • Published: 15 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781400079735
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $37.99
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About the author

Ann Packer

Ann Packer is the author of two best-selling novels, Songs Without Words and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, the latter of which received a Great Lakes Book Award, an American Library Association Award, and the Kate Chopin Literary Award. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Vogue, and Real Simple. Also the author of Mendocino and Other Stories, she lives in northern California with her family.

Praise for Swim Back To Me

  • FRONT COVER QUOTE: "As audacious, imaginative and poignant as any of [Packer's] previous work.... Packer can compress a lifetime of hope and sorrow in a short story, and in a brief paragraph can suggest the unspoken language of marriage and family." --The Miami Herald
  • "Deeply engrossing.... Illuminates the instant, in the darkest hour of grief, when the heart opens wider than ever before--and shows us a new way of being." --More
  • "The stories of Swim Back to Me are far from predictable tales of American domesticity. Every plot is a potential time bomb, skillfully placed and ticking with tension and suspense." -The New York Times Book Review