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Ann Packer is the author of two best-selling novels, Songs Without Words and The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, the latter of which received a Great Lakes Book Award, an American Library Association Award, and the Kate Chopin Literary Award. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Vogue, and Real Simple. Also the author of Mendocino and Other Stories, she lives in northern California with her family.

Books by Ann Packer

Swim Back To Me

Ann Packer, author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Dive from Clausen's Pier and Songs Without Words, brings us a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories. Shimmering with psychological precision and unfailing intelligence, Swim Back to Me is Packer's most enticing work yet.

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