The Sea of Light
by Jenifer Levin
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The Sea of Light is a wise, beautiful, and very American story of three women and their desire to excel and win - and heal one another - in the highly charged world of athletic competition. Angelita is the hurricane that brings down a plane carrying a team of star-quality swimmers, groomed from childhood to compete at the international level. Babe Delgado is a young Cuban-American woman, presumed dead, who is rescued from the crash. Fifty-one hours in the Atlantic have left her scarred in show more body and spirit, afraid to compete again. Brenna Allen is a tough, driven swim coach at a small university, grieving for a lover lost to cancer. She finds solace in building her own winning team, driving her overworked captain, Ellie Marks, ever harder. Ellie is a child of holocaust survivors, struggling to own herself and her sexuality as hard as she's working to win. Brenna recruits Babe, promising to help her rebuild her damaged body, strength, and will. The Sea of Light is a story of wins, losses, and passions in a world where destiny and magic interfere with victory, where families are forced to reconcile with private hurts and false dreams, and where a redemptive, healing love between women - erotic and overwhelmingly intimate - stands in stark contrast to the expectations of the world. A sensitive, powerful tale of self-discovery, sexual identity, and violent emotions unleashed by sudden disaster, this novel is sure to command attention and acclaim. show lessTags
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Hands down, one of the most powerful books I've read.
Levin has crafted a beautiful story of love, loss, and redemption set against the backdrop of collegiate swimming. Her prose is amazing, and each chapter will leave you wanting more. I am sad that this book has gone out of print.... that makes it hard to recommend to people, because in some places it can be hard to find.
Levin has crafted a beautiful story of love, loss, and redemption set against the backdrop of collegiate swimming. Her prose is amazing, and each chapter will leave you wanting more. I am sad that this book has gone out of print.... that makes it hard to recommend to people, because in some places it can be hard to find.
Good job tracking the minds of several different characters who look at the same situations from varying points of view. Intellectually engaging. For me, the saddest story was not that of the protagonists, the two swimmers, but of their coach. No spoilers but egads... Not being a sports person, I enjoyed an insider's view of a sport that didn't shut out a non-sportiv person like myself.
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- Canonical title
- The Sea of Light
- Original publication date
- 1993
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- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 1
