Florence Adler Swims Forever av Rachel Beanland

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<B>Winner of The National Jewish Book Awards Gold­berg Prize for Debut Fic­tion..</B><BR/> <BR/><B>How far would you go to hide the truth from the ones you love the most?</B><BR/> <BR/> Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to holidaymakers and move into the apartment above the bakery they own. The apartment is where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and, despite the cramped quarters, it still feels like home.<BR/> <BR/> 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 bedrest, leaving her seven-year-old daughter Gussie in Esther’s care. After Joseph insists they take in Anna, a  young woman whom he recently helped emigrate from Nazi Germany, the apartment is bursting at the seams. Esther wants nothing more than to keep her daughters close and safe but so