About the Author

Betsy Carter is the author of The Orange Blossom Special and a memoir, Nothing to Fall Back On. She is a contributing editor to O: The Oprah Magazine and writes for Good Housekeeping, New York, and AARP, among others. She formerly served as an editor at Esquire, Newsweek, and Harper's Bazaar and was the founding editor of New York Woman. She lives in New York City.

About the Book

It's a fresh start for Delores Walker when she boards a Greyhound bus bound for Florida, leaving the Bronx far behind. She's headed for sunny Weeki Wachee Springs, a frayed roadside attraction in danger of becoming obsolete with the opening of Walt Disney's latest creation only miles up the road. Always more suited for a life underwater, Delores joins a group of other aquatic hopefuls in this City of Live Mermaids, where she discovers a world of sequined tails and amphibious theme shows that even Disney couldn't dream up. It's in this fantastic place of make-believe and reinvention that Delores Walker becomes Delores Taurus, Florida's most unlikely celebrity.

Bringing together an eccentric assortment of outcasts, poseurs, and underdogs, this wise and poignant novel conjures up a time in America when anything was possible, especially in the Sunshine State. A story of family, chasing dreams and finding your way, Swim To Me will have you believing the impossible -- even in mermaids from the Bronx.