Join us for our next installment of the 1 Bear | 1 Book Alumni Wide Book Club with a nomination from the Brown Club of Boston, Night Swim by Jessica Keener AM ’84.

The discussion will be led by Boston's Brown Club member William Brisk ‘60.

The 1 Bear | 1 Book program seeks to connect alums globally by selecting books to read and discuss at the same time. Each Club has nominated a book that captures the zeitgeist of their region, a title they would tell a fellow alum, You Gotta Read This.

Night Swim (2012) follows a dysfunctional Jewish family living in a suburb of Boston in 1970, and the coming of age of 16 year old Sarah Kunitz, who is looking back at a pivotal time when tragedy struck and upended her family.

From the outside, her parents' lifestyle appears enviable: a five-bedroom house, cocktail parties, a live-in maid to care for the four kids – but all is not well behind polished doors. In this enduring tale, Night Swim embraces the intimate complexities of love and grief, and reveals how a family, bound by heartache, learns to rise and overcome.

About Jessica Keener AM ‘84
Jessica Keener graduated from Brown's Graduate Writing program in Fiction in 1984 Keener has published more than 100 features and essays, which have appeared in national publications including The Boston Globe, Agni, O: Oprah Magazine, and WBUR’s Cognoscenti. She lives in Brookline, MA and is working on a new book.

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