The Summer of Diving - Sara Stridsberg

The award-winning and beautiful story of a child coping with her father''s absence. The book tackles a difficult subject with great tenderness, validating a child''s experience of a parent suffering from depression. Zoe''s dad isn''t home. She still sees him in photographs, laughing and playing tennis, but for now she can only visit him in a building where everyone looks sad and the walls are an ugly pink colour. Some days Zoe''s dad is too sad to see her, but she goes to the hospital anyway. While waiting she meets Sabina who invites her to swim across the world. Zoe''s not sure it''s possible, but Sabina tells her, ''A girl can do everything she wants.''