Night Swimming: Stories

Night Swimming: Stories by Fromm, Pete. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312209360.

A moving short story collection about family life, love, and heartbreak by a writer hailed by Kirkus Reviews as having "a strong and distinctive vision of contemporary life in the isolated corners of the modern West" Pete Fromms fiction draws hope and possibility from the details of day to day life. Among the many memorable characters in Night Swimming, we meet a young man who becomes a janitor so he can follow his mother into a nursing home, all the while attempting to uncover a secret and wonderful past for her. We meet an FAA investigator who has spent his career listening to black box tapes--"eavesdropping on what become their very last words on earth"--yet finds himself struggling to discover the first clue about his own sons life. Filled with respect and even admiration for his characters, and the hope and possibility they bring to their day to day dilemmas, the stories of Night Swimming will affirm Pete Fromms reputation as one of the nations foremost fiction writers.