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Bonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and the author of American Chinatown, winner of the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Her latest book, Why We Swim, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Time magazine and NPR Best Book of 2020, and a Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist in Science; it is currently being translated into nine languages. Her first children’s book, Sarah and the Big Wave, about the first woman to surf Northern California’s Mavericks, was published in 2021 and was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Her work has been recognized and supported by Harvard University, the National Press Foundation, and the Mesa Refuge. She is currently working on a book about muscle.

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	Why We Swim 3.96 avg rating — 9,339 ratings — published 2020 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin, Bonnie Tsui (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.27 avg rating — 3,033 ratings — published 1999 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco by Gary Kamiya (Introduction), Beth Lisick (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Michelle Tea (Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 511 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods 3.56 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sarah and the Big Wave: The True Story of the First Woman to Surf Mavericks by Bonnie Tsui (Goodreads Author), Sophie Diao (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.86 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War 3.69 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise: 20 Young Writers on Finding a Place in the Natural World 3.46 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Is Life: 10 Writers on Love, Fear, and Hope in the Age of Disasters by Garrett M. Graff (Goodreads Author), Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author), Carmen Maria Machado (Goodreads Author) 3.16 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Days Like This: Good Writers on Bad Luck, Bum Deals, and Other Torments by Samantha Schoech (Editor), Mary Roach, Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“You don’t have to be a great swimmer to appreciate the benefits of sensory solitude and the equilibrium the water can bring.”
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“For many swimmers, the act of swimming is a tonic, in that old-fashioned sense of the word: it is a restorative, a stimulant, undertaken for a feeling of vigor and well-being. The word tonic comes from the Greek tonikos, “of or for stretching.” About a dozen people”
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“Buoyancy, floating, weightlessness. Freedom. These are the words we use to talk about swimming. Is it a coincidence that this is also the language we use to talk about the lightness of being, the wellness of being, that we strive for in this corporeal world?”
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