Swim Home To The Vanished: A Novel,New

Swim Home To The Vanished: A Novel,New

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Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in the Debut FictionSwim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic.Tommy Orange, author of There, ThereAfter the death of his brother, a griefstricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas in this haunting debut novel, inspired, in part, by the ramifications of Din history and thoughta mesmerizing, original tale in the tradition of works by Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, and Gabriel Garca Mrquez.When the river swallowed Kai, Damiens little brother didnt die so much as vanish. As the unbearable loss settles deeper into his bones, Damien, a smalltown line cook, walks away from everything he has ever known. Driving as far south as his old truck and his legs allow, he lands in a fishing village beyond the reach of his past where he hopes he can finally forget.But the village has grief of its own. The same day that Damien arrives, a young woman from the communitys most powerful family is being laid to rest. A stranger in town, Damien is the object of gossip and suspicion, ignored by all except the dead girls mother, Ana Maria, who offers Damien a room and a job.Grateful for her kindness, Damien soon begins to fall under Ana Maria's charismatic spell. But how long can he resist the rumors swirling through town suggesting she might have had something to do with her daughters death? Or deny his strange kinship with one of Ana Maria's surviving daughters, Marta, who knows too well the grief that follows the loss of a siblingand who is driven by a fierce need for revenge? Swiftly, Damien finds himself caught in a power struggle between the brujas, a whirlwind battle that threatens to sweep the whole village out to sea.Resonant with the Din creation story and the unshakeable weight of the Long Walkthe forced removal of the Navajo from their landSwim Home to the Vanished explores the human capacity for grief and redemption, and the lasting effects it has on the soul.

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