The Three-Year Swim Club

The New York Times– bestselling “remarkable real-life account” of impoverished children who became world-class swimmers is “about as underdog as it gets” ( Boston Globe ). In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians. They faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The children were Japanese-American and were malnourished and barefoot. They had n