PositiveWorld LiteratureAn author who wishes to recall a history known to his parents, but outside his own experience, often has a hard time getting it right. He may brim with overconfidence about what life was like back then but may miss many of the subtleties ... [Jedrowski\'s] sensibilities mark him as a product of multicultural, super-diverse, LGBTQ-receptive England. He writes of his debt to a London writing group even though the narrative is set in Poland. He has been critical of a French gay publication for not treating gays as ordinary people. How then must he find life in Catholic, conservative Poland? ... The vibrancy of Swimming in the Dark is a love story that lapses when homosexuality cannot find space in the 1980s. Forty years later, the battle for that space, sadly, continues.
