"Courtney Brkic gracefully interweaves three generations of family stories and lies all with authority and wisdom An intimate portrayal of life in exile." O, the Oprah MagazineWhen free spirit Jadranka mysteriously disappears shortly after emigrating to America, her older sister Magdalena must leave their ancestral Croatian island home and follow her to New York City. Courtney Angela Brkic is the author of The First Rule of Swimming (Little, Brown, and Company, ), Stillness: and Other Stories (FSG, ) and The Stone Fields (FSG, ). Her work has also appeared in Zoetrope, The New York Times, The Washington Post Magazine, Harpers Queen, the Utne Reader, TriQuarterly Review, The Alaska Review and National Geographic, among others/5. · Find The First Rule Of Swimming by Brkic, Courtney Angela at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.
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Courtney Angela Brkic is the author of Stillness: And Other Stories — named a Best Book by the Chicago Tribune, a Notable Book by the New York Times, and a Barnes Noble Discover pick. Her memoir The Stone Fields was shortlisted for the Freedom of Expression Award by the Index on Censorship. In her new novel, “The First Rule of Swimming,” Courtney Angela Brkic conveys all these dislocations with empathy and poetic grace. Her fictional family lives on an imaginary Adriatic island. "Courtney Brkic gracefully interweaves three generations of family stories and lies all with authority and wisdom An intimate portrayal of life in exile." O, the Oprah MagazineWhen free spirit Jadranka mysteriously disappears shortly after emigrating to America, her older sister Magdalena must leave their ancestral Croatian island home and follow her to New York City.
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