Julie Otsuka writes about dementia with vision and wisdom in The Swimmers, but its dazzling opening jars with what follows

The Swimmers, Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited third novel, traces the elderly Alice’s descent into dementia – after a preamble that in itself is breathtaking but jars tonally with what follows.

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