Let’s Go Swimming on Doomsday

'Greed, guilt, and redemption are layered in a sober yet tender narrative showing the lengths one will go to for loved ones.'

* Kirkus Reviews *

'An intriguing examination of ways familial loyalty and guilt can lead anyone to make desperate choices. Anderson uses the exploration of manipulation and coercion to craft a thought-provoking narrative.'

* School Library Journal *

'Anderson...breathe[s] ferocious life into a story that needs to be told. This is one of those tough but invaluable books with the power to increase a reader's awareness of and empathy for teens who have lost the right to be young.'

* Booklist, starred review *

'[Anderson] makes it clear how difficult it is for even children to survive this faith-based and historically rooted conflict unscathed.'

* Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books *

'Narrator Kevin R. Free breathes dramatic urgency into Anderson's intense story…Listeners hear and feel Abdi's horror and numb, helpless despair at the atrocities he witnesses — and perpetrates — and we rejoice at his redemption.' 

* AudioFile, Earphones Award Winner *

‘[A] potent, brutal read... You won't be able to forget this story of a young boy robbed of his own childhood.’

-- Marie Claire, best YA 2019

‘Let’s Go Swimming on Doomsday is a gritty, challenging, but worthwhile read offering a message of redemption.’

  -- Armadillo Maga