Swim for the Little One First is a dazzling new collection of twelve short fictions by the acclaimed fiction writer and prose stylist Noy Holland. The stories gathered in Swim for the Little One First vary in setting (Ecuador, Montana, Florida, the Berkshires, North Dakota, New Mexico, and California) and style (from the plainspoken to the fustian).In Milk River a young girl whose mother has committed suicide and whose brother has gone off to war is left to tend to her ailing father; in Today is an Early Out a family finds itself caught in a mudslide in the Sierra Nevada; in Merengue a...