SWIM by Eric C. Wat, read by Feodor Chin
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing, August 1st 2019
- Genre: Literary Fiction
- Format: Audiobook
- Length: 9 hrs 8 mins (272 pages)
- My Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5)
Click on the cover for my review on Goodreads.
This book blew me away. I didn’t know what to expect when I started SWIM. That it was queer and Asian sold it for me, no questions asked. And I got so much more out of it than I could ever have imagined.
At first glance, the story felt somewhat mundane, but I happen to love fiction that shows us people’s everyday lives, no matter how unexciting, so I loved it from the start. Sometimes, I needed to remind myself that this wasn’t a memoir, because Carson Chow (周遠和; 40, gay, Hongkongese American) speaking to me in first-person made it feel like one. His family immigrated to the US from Hong Kong when he was a child, and the nuances of an immigrant family are threaded throughout the storytelling.