Wild Swims: Stories

In Wild Swims, Dorthe Nors plumbs the depths of the human heart, from desire to melancholy and what lies between. Fourteen effervescent stories follow men and women full of restless longing, seeking home but rarely finding it. A lie told during a ferry ride becomes a festering wound between schoolmates. At a remote cabin, a writer finds unexpected friendship with an ex-lover's mother. A woman taken with the idea of wild swims ventures as far as the local swimming pool.

Cutting, offbeat, yet full of warmth, Wild Swims is a masterful display of restraint, and a map to living life without it