Learning to swim : a novel
(Book)

Includes reading group guide (p. 295-296).

When Troy Chance spots what she thinks is a small boy falling off the back of a passing ferry, she instinctively jumps into the icy waters of Lake Champlain to rescue him. He's incredibly frightened, speaks only French, and won't tell her what happened. Troy determines that she will keep him safe rather than turn him over to the police. When he finally begins to confide in her, he tells a bizarre tale of being kidnapped, hearing his mother murdered by gunshot, and then being held for months. As Troy tracks down the boy's father, she begins to question whether she will be able to let him go, since he has unleashed within her a maternal instinct she had no idea she possessed.