Florence Adler Swims Forever

Happy Sunday! I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.

Today’s #puppyandcurrentlyreading is Florence Adler Swims Forever. So far I’m halfway through this book. The plot seems to be driven by grief, and a frank look at how family and faith can be frustrating at times.

It’s just Riggs and I this morning as the rest of the family has headed out into nature. We are having quite the warming trend with highs in the 70s so I’ll head out later today to soak it up!

𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗽𝘀𝗶𝘀: 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: there’s Fannie’s risky pregnancy—not to mention her always-scheming husband, Isaac—and the fact that the handsome heir of a hotel notorious for its anti-Semitic policies, seems to be in love with Florence.

When tragedy strikes, Esther makes the shocking decision to hide the truth—at least until Fannie’s baby is born—and pulls the family into an elaborate web of secret-keeping and lies, bringing long-buried tensions to the surface that reveal how quickly the act of protecting those we love can turn into betrayal.