![]() ![]() ![]() Set against the beaches, boardwalk and opulent hotels of Atlantic City of the 1930s, Rachel Beanland’s debut novel, Florence Adler Swims Forever, begins with a shocking tragedy that results in three generations of a Jewish family grappling with heartbreak, romance and the weight of family secrets. You give your children every possible chance.” ― Florence Adler Swims Forever “Then I became a parent, and I had my answer. Had they been right to send my brother and then me? Would it have been better to use the ticket for my father, who might have immediately made a better income? If he had done well enough, he could have sent for the whole family.” Joseph plucked at a blade of grass. “In my first years in America-in Philadelphia and then Atlantic City-I used to wonder at my parents’ decision. ![]()
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