A review by stokedtabi
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri

5.0

"in the pool I lose myself. my thoughts merge and flow. everything—my body, my heart, the universe-seems tolerable when I'm protected by water and nothing touches me. all I think about is the effort. below my body there's a restless play of dark and light projected onto the bottom of the pool, that drifts away like smoke"