The Weight of Water
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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.
Children's fictionEngland, fictionMothers and daughters, fictionSwimming, fictionRace relations, fictionImmigrantsJuvenile fictionMothers and daughtersSwimmingAlienation (Social psychology)Novels in verseEthnic relations