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The Lifeguard: A Novel
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Author Of Bestseller, In A Perfect Worldauthor Of Three Books Adapted To Film: Suspicious River, The Life Before Her Eyes, And White Bird In A Blizzardnational Book Critics Circle Award Winner In Poetry For Space, In Chainslaura Kasischke Dives Back Into Novels With This Thrilling Small Town Mystery, The Lifeguardthis Is A Novel About Grief And Ambition, Innocence And BlameA Tale That Spools Out Of And Around A Midwestern Swimming Pool One Summer Afternoon, 1969, And Into The Future Of An America Yet To Be Imagined.In The Town Of Mission Hills, Michigan, An Elementary School Child Drowns In The OlympicSized Pool At A Summer Swim Club. By Most, But Not All, The Lifeguard On Duty That AfternoonA Teenage Girl Who Becomes The TownS Scapegoat, Bearing The Weight Of Their Grief And FearsIs Seen As Responsible For The Tragedy.Kasischke Weaves Together Overlapping Narratives And Shifting Perspectives, Gradually Peeling Back The Layers Of What Really Happened That Day. Through Poetic, SensoryRich Prose, She Explores The Liminal Spaces Between Memory And Reality, Innocence And Culpability, Childhood And Adulthood. The Story Probes The Arbitrary, Inexorable Nature Of FateHow A Single Moment Can Alter Lives Forever, And How The Search For Answers Can Reveal Unsettling Truths About Ourselves And Those Around Us.
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