ACCLAIM FOR CAROLE L. GLICKFELD’S

Swimming Toward the Ocean

“A distinguished debut.”

—The Baltimore Sun

“Swimming Toward the Ocean is a powerful look at a New York City Jewish family in the 1950s. . . . Carole L. Glickfeld has written a superb tale.”

—The Midwest Book Review

“It’s a small story the novel tells—but with sweetness and wisdom and affection—of how each generation sets sail anew for its own America, because landing and arriving aren’t quite the same.”

—Time

“Warm, funny, human, and honest.”

—Library Journal

“Glickfeld does a wonderful job of embroidering this tale with the sights, sounds, and smells of New York City. . . . There is a great deal to admire in this debut novel.” —The News Tribune

“A seductive narrative voice . . . precise, poignant, personal . . . invests the novel with glorious life.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Richly textured, throbbing with life’s little and great dramas, Swimming Toward the Ocean is a novel to savor.”

—Forward