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TURNING - JESSICA J LEE KARTONIERT (TB)

Jessica J. Lee - Canadian  Chinese and British - swims through all four seasons. This is the
story of a beautiful obsession: of the thrill of a still  turquoise lake  of cracking the ice
before submerging  of floating under blue skies  of cool  fresh  spring swimming - of facing
past fears of near drowning and of breaking free.  'Lee is intelligent and controlled  her
writing clean and accurate . . . Turning is many things: a snapshot of Berlin seen through the
prism of its lakes  the story of a broken and healing heart  a contemplation of identity  a
coming-of-age story' Katharine Norbury  Observer   'Bold and brave  she approaches her watery
pilgrimage with a minimum amount of fuss . . . Lee writes like a siren  her silken prose
blending with softly worn scholarship to enchanting effect' Literary Review   'Turning is
filled with a wonderful melancholy as she swims through lakes laden with dark histories . . .
Her clear  calm writing encompasses the truth and terror of open-water swimming: the
conjunction of human and natural history that it represents as we swimmers hang there in the
water  caught between elements  between our land-bound lives stationed in front of liminal
screens and the infinite deep that lies beyond' Philip Hoare

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