Florence Adler swims forever

OVER THE COURSE OF ONE SUMMER THAT BEGINS WITH A SHOCKING TRAGEDY, THREE GENERATIONS OF THE ADLER FAMILY GRAPPLE WITH HEARTBREAK, ROMANCE, AND THE WEIGHT OF FAMILY SECRETS

ATLANTIC CITY, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to "America's Playground" and move into the apartment where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence.

Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training to swim the English Channel, and Fannie, pregnant again after recently losing a baby, is on bed rest, leaving her daughter, Gussie, in Esther's care. After Joseph insists they take in a mysterious young woman whom he helped emigrate from Nazi Germany, the apartment is bursting at the seams.

Everyone is safe under Esther's close watch until tragedy strikes during one of Florence's training swims. Esther makes the shocking decision to hide the truth about Florence from Fannie until her baby is born. She pulls the family into an elaborate web of secret-keeping and lies, bringing long-buried tensions to the surface that reveal how quickly protecting those we love can turn into betrayal.

"I simply couldn't put it out of my head. I finished in two days... I felt awe."