The Swimmers, Julie Otsuka

May 28, 2023 Kim Love
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The Swimmers Julie Otsuka 4 Stars For the first half of the book I kept trying to decipher the code of what the crack represents, and kept leaning towards the socio-political. Is it partisanship? The social divide over climate change? The politicization and polarization of identity? As the book moved into a more personal story, I tended to think of the crack as a personal rift, one that, while living through its appearance, you can only witness it from a remove, with apprehension and anxiety, whether or not you’re actually helpless to stop its growth. 5/28/23