Phantom Limbs

Otis and Meg had once been inseparable, until Meg’s family moved away after an accident that killed Otis’s younger brother and changed both families. Three years of silence follow. During that time, Otis becomes the swimming protégé of Dara, an eighteen-year-old who has lost an arm and can no longer pursue the Olympic swimming path herself. Dara’s phantom pain and Otis’s continuing grief remain present as the novel explores loss, love, disability, and lives altered by tragedy.