Florence Adler swims forever / Rachel Beanland.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 309 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781982132460Other title: Florence Adler swims forever : a novelSubject(s): Jewish families -- New Jersey -- Atlantic City -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Truthfulness and falsehood -- Fiction | Atlantic City (N.J.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Domestic fiction. DDC classification: 813/.6 Summary: Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to 'America's Playground' and move into the small apartment above their bakery. Despite the cramped quarters, this is the apartment where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and it always feels like home. 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 for the duration of her pregnancy. After Joseph insists they take in a mysterious young woman whom he recently helped emigrate from Nazi Germany, the apartment is bursting at the seams. Esther only wants to keep her daughters close and safe but some matters are beyond her control.
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Atlantic City, 1934. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to 'America's Playground' and move into the small apartment above their bakery. Despite the cramped quarters, this is the apartment where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence, and it always feels like home. 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 for the duration of her pregnancy. After Joseph insists they take in a mysterious young woman whom he recently helped emigrate from Nazi Germany, the apartment is bursting at the seams. Esther only wants to keep her daughters close and safe but some matters are beyond her control.
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