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| | CM Magazine: Swimming Toward the Light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Swimming Toward the Light begins in the 1940's, as Madge Murray grows up in wartime Nova Scotia, and, thirteen stories later, comes full circle, as she returns to Liverpool just after her father's death many decades later. |
 | | And, although Swimming Toward the Light is about family and its rivalries, secrets, and understandings, it is also about an individual's slow but sure journey towards an understanding of her own self; in her maturity, Madge realizes that "after years of managing a family, I covet aloneness."(p. |
 | | Swimming Toward the Light is a strong collection of stories, rich in evocative detail, powerful in its depiction of the richness of everyday life. |
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