From the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka’s The Swimmers is a novel about a mother and a daughter caught up in grief, memories, love and loss. Alice is part of a group of recreational swimmers who find kinship in their local swimming pool. However, a crack soon appears beneath the surface of the water at the same time as Alice’s memory begins to crack too. Her husband and daughter are faced with the dilemma of how to care for her, as Alice struggles to live in a home she’s not sure is her home at all.