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  1. Jun 11, 2021 · Synopsis of the Story. Miranda July’s “The Swim Team” is eerily genuine in all its surrealism. The plot is built around “Maria”’s post-breakup separation anxiety and unfolds as she runs into her ex-boyfriend at a bookstore. Seeing someone whom she loved dearly arm in arm with another woman sets her on a nostalgic journey to the ...

  2. To assess the meaning of the swimming metaphor in Miranda July’s short story “The Swim Team,” think about how it alters the narrator’s position in the town. Before the narrator became the ...

  3. The short story "The Swim Team" by Miranda July is a touching story about a lonely young woman, the narrator, who teaches a series of swim lessons to some old folks in their eighties.

  4. Miranda July Elizabeth would leave me with a warm dish, like a casserole or spaghetti. This was the exchange, and it made it so that I didn't really have to get another job. It was just two hours a week, but all the other hours were in support of those two. On Tuesday and Thursday morn- ings, I'd wake up and think: Swim Practice. On the other

  5. Feb 11, 2022 · ‘The Swim Team’ by Miranda July A woman recounts a time when she gave swimming lessons to three elderly people in Belvedere. Since there are no bodies of water and no pools in Belvedere, she trained them in her flat, using bowls of water to practise breathing underwater, and jumping from the chair onto the bed to practise diving.

  6. Nov 17, 2010 · The narrator places bowls of water on the floor. The three elderly people (Elizabeth, Kelda, and Jack Jack) put their faces in the water. They kick and flail, and along the way they learn how to "swim" from the narrator, their coach. Now, long after the event, she still finds meaning in these simple morning rituals.

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  8. 23. What I Was Reading: “The Swim Team” is the second story in Miranda July’s collection of short stories titled No one belongs here more than you. All of the stories in the collection are compelling due to the wildly imaginative inner lives of the usually lonely, bizarre, and socially outcast characters.