The Swimmers: A novel (CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER) Dessert Baking “A brilliant

“A brilliant

In his outstretched hand

Suspenseful

The hybrids: The fruits of the doctor’s labor

in superb English translation

The Swimmers: A novel (CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER) Dessert Baking “A brilliantNATIONAL BESTSELLER CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mothers dementia and her daughters love" (The Washington Post). The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium