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Night Swimming
by Aaron Starmer
This one took me a while. It reads like YA and all of the main characters are just finished with high school, but with its 90s setting and pervasive feeling of nostalgia, it feels like it was written for the millennials.
There was absolutely a plot, but I think Night Swimming is absolutely more about trying to capture a feeling. And to each, what that feeling is may differ.
There is a line about how things can be askew, and that doesn’t necessarily make them bad. I think that sums up my reading experience. I don’t know if I ever felt like I settled into the story, and I think that might have been the point.
No spoilers but I left this book both wistful and melancholy, and wondering if such a thing as halcyon days ever did or could exist.
There was absolutely a plot, but I think Night Swimming is absolutely more about trying to capture a feeling. And to each, what that feeling is may differ.
There is a line about how things can be askew, and that doesn’t necessarily make them bad. I think that sums up my reading experience. I don’t know if I ever felt like I settled into the story, and I think that might have been the point.
No spoilers but I left this book both wistful and melancholy, and wondering if such a thing as halcyon days ever did or could exist.