Florence inexplicably drowns, and Esther decides that the family must keep this secret from Fannie, for fear that Fannie will go into early labor. One family member who is not on the beach is Fannie, Florence’s older sister and Gussie’s mom, who is pregnant and in the hospital on bed rest, determined not to lose this baby as she lost the last one.īy the end of the day, the Adler family’s world has changed forever. Florence is such a competitive swimmer that she’s training to swim the English Channel later that summer. It’s a blue-sky June day, and most of the Adler family is enjoying the beach: 7-year-old Gussie Gussie’s grandparents Esther and Joseph Anna, the young German Jewish woman the family has taken in and Florence, Esther and Joseph’s younger daughter, a Wellesley College student and star swimmer. Rachel Beanland’s debut novel opens in 1934 Atlantic City.
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