I Can't Swim

Fiction & Literature, Humorous
Cover of the book I Can't Swim by Renee Simpson, New Libri Press
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Author: Renee Simpson ISBN: 9781614690306
Publisher: New Libri Press Publication: October 7, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Renee Simpson
ISBN: 9781614690306
Publisher: New Libri Press
Publication: October 7, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

Did your aunt ever get drunk at the holidays and call everyone in your family motherf***rs? If so, you will love this book. If not, you will especially love this book.

Meet the Applewhites in the 80s, a clan of Brits transplanted to New York City. Reebee, a fat seven year old with a penchant for lying and a fear of poltergeists, is the unwitting chronicler of the Applewhites' many maladaptations.

Through Reebee's eye for absurdity with compelling touches of humanity, we meet--her young mother, a chain smoker with a foul mouth and model looks, her mother's Italian immigrant boyfriend who is dangerously frugal, and married, her mother's stalker, an elderly cocaine dealer, and her mother's best friend, a portly Bronx woman who enjoys dancing Merengue and resolving problems outside of the law. The extended family court danger in their own highly idiosyncratic ways.

Reebee can't swim, but she does learn to navigate life and her family, as revealed in the last chapter, a flash forward to 2012 that finds her with a law degree, living in Uruguay with a Mr. Universe runner-up, who she runs away from.

Back in NYC, Reebee moves in with her now youth obsessed mother, and a new Applewhite, her orphaned teenage cousin who is out of the closet and searching for his identity. We can't pick our families, but we can certainly pick on their insanity

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Did your aunt ever get drunk at the holidays and call everyone in your family motherf***rs? If so, you will love this book. If not, you will especially love this book.

Meet the Applewhites in the 80s, a clan of Brits transplanted to New York City. Reebee, a fat seven year old with a penchant for lying and a fear of poltergeists, is the unwitting chronicler of the Applewhites' many maladaptations.

Through Reebee's eye for absurdity with compelling touches of humanity, we meet--her young mother, a chain smoker with a foul mouth and model looks, her mother's Italian immigrant boyfriend who is dangerously frugal, and married, her mother's stalker, an elderly cocaine dealer, and her mother's best friend, a portly Bronx woman who enjoys dancing Merengue and resolving problems outside of the law. The extended family court danger in their own highly idiosyncratic ways.

Reebee can't swim, but she does learn to navigate life and her family, as revealed in the last chapter, a flash forward to 2012 that finds her with a law degree, living in Uruguay with a Mr. Universe runner-up, who she runs away from.

Back in NYC, Reebee moves in with her now youth obsessed mother, and a new Applewhite, her orphaned teenage cousin who is out of the closet and searching for his identity. We can't pick our families, but we can certainly pick on their insanity

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