The Dive from Clausen's Pier

Carrie Bell, 23, has spent her whole life in Madison, Wisconsin, and has long been engaged to her high school sweetheart, Mike Mayer. Then, on Memorial Day, Mike dives from a pier into shallow water and is paralyzed. Torn between loyalty to him and a growing urge to escape, Carrie leaves for New York, where she begins to build a different life. Ann Packer's novel asks what we owe the people we love, and what we owe ourselves.

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