Table of Contents

Acknowledgments A Virgin Twice Swimming Jeff Call Beth Cold On Ice His Sanitary Bed Blue Jays Dancing At Times like This

About the Author

Karl Luntta is the author of the novel Know It by Heart as well as numerous travel books. His stories have appeared in International Quarterly, Talking River, and Baltimore Review. He lives outside Albany, New York.

Reviews

"The collection, made up of equal parts of heartbreak and hope, contains, above all, good writing. Writing of the classic kind, with the subtle utility of a good African proverb." - Peace Corps Worldwide "Luntta's prose is refreshingly accessible and conversational ... These are intimate stories, with an authenticity reminiscent of tales told at family gatherings and passed from one generation to the next ... His writing has an ease of pace and a charming unfussiness that is extremely appealing, and which allows the reader that rare feeling of being present in the narrative." - The Literary Review "Karl Luntta's Swimming takes us from Botswana to America and back to Africa, in short stories that capture humanity from childhood to old age. Luntta's great strength: crystallizing the moments when lives are changed and the future (as well as one's memories of the past) is altered." - John Coyne