Solange wir schwimmen

In her swimming pool, they feel at home, where they can leave their worries behind during their daily laps: designers, nuns, dog sitters, vegans, police officers, professors, actors. Until one day, a crack appears - at the bottom of the pool, but also in the memory of Alice, who, like the others, has always found comfort and support in swimming. As she soon swims only through fragmented memories, her daughter tries to empathize with her mother, to reassess their relationship, and to restore meaning and coherence to Alice's life. From such diverse yet astonishing perspectives and with an unparalleled sense of the comedic in the tragic, Julie Otsuka writes about love and loss, grief and memory, mothers and daughters, and the profound question of what we owe our parents.