Description: Based on the premise that every species has a recurring dream, Swimmers takes the reader on a surreal, dream-state adventure.
Review Quotes:
"The story is nonlinear, but the form supports the idea that water is a place of play and possibility. The normal formal rules we live by don't apply here -- we see a clock half-submerged in a fishbowl, fish in swimsuits and swimmers with fins, indicating a fluid interplay between worlds."--The New York Times
"...a gently absurdist excursion that turns a human wish--Olympic swimmers/ dream that they're fish--on its head...Debut creator Alcántara imagines an alternate universe of Olympic training that brims with quiet humor. Humans, fish, and droll human-fish hybrids smudged in lithograph-like grays stroke and kick and plunge through white pages that function visually as water. But instead of Olympian strength and endurance, the artist's sly underwater civilization is driven by creativity, invention, and hope."--Publishers Weekly