Right before Tully's mother left them, she promised to help Tully train to swim a twelve-mile marathon across Lake Tahoe. Now that she's gone, Tully knows how to grab her Mom's attention so that maybe just maybe she can get her Mom to come home. With the help of her bestfriend, she's going to secretly do it on her own and become the youngest person to successfully complete the swim. Along the way, she fights cold water and bad weather, but the hardest obstacle of all is her own mind and the thoughts that spring up inside it.
Told in verse, this spare story of a sex-hour swim across the lake becomes much more: Tully's confrontation with her feelings about her mother's abandonment about how Tully will move on. It doesn't steer into any particularly novel territory and the verse itself is not particularly adventurous (except for a few clever pieces that take advantage of some fancy typography). Still, it's a pleasant enough story and a brisk read.
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