The Weight of Water
Swimming, fiction
Novels in verse
Race relations, fiction
Alienation (Social psychology)
Swimming
Mothers and daughters, fiction
Immigrants
Mothers and daughters
Ethnic relations
Young adult fiction
England, fiction
Children's fiction
Juvenile fiction
Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to Coventry, England from Poland, searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge from an alien society.
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