In 1962 a young woman leaves her home for what she thinks will be a year-long job in the United States before returning to England to get married But her year abroad-and what she discovers about herself and her family-disrupts the plan. The year spans an engagement, a broken marriage, a threat of war, and the assassination of a president. She learns what it feels like to be a foreigner, and that you really can't go home again. Here is a collection of memoir essays and stories about family. A family that had secrets-a family that loved to swim.