THIS FAR ISN'T FAR ENOUGH

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Pub Date 20 Feb 2018 | Archive Date 15 Jan 2018

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Description

A once-successful Lowcountry cook seeks a comeback with a popup restaurant in his shabby apartment. A shady estate appraiser meets his match in a cagey widower who refuses to part with an antique clock he desperately wants. A countrywoman, dismayed by her daughter’s decision to become a prizefighter, turns to her dead mother for guidance. In this beautifully written collection of fourteen stories, characters seek to reset their lives knocked sideways by failure, betrayal, or chance, only to be ensnared by pasts they can’t escape. Haunting and deeply moving, This Far Isn’t Far Enough demonstrates Lynn Sloan’s penetrating understanding of loss, endurance, and the undefeated spirit.

A once-successful Lowcountry cook seeks a comeback with a popup restaurant in his shabby apartment. A shady estate appraiser meets his match in a cagey widower who refuses to part with an antique...


A Note From the Publisher

Lynn Sloan is a writer and photographer. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and American Literary Review, among other publications, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the author of the novel Principles of Navigation (2015 Fomite). Her fine art photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally. For many years she taught photography at Columbia College Chicago, where she founded the journal Occasional Readings in Photography, and contributed to Afterimage, Art Week, and Exposure. She lives in Evanston, Illinois with her husband.

Lynn Sloan is a writer and photographer. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and American Literary Review, among other publications, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She...


Advance Praise

“It isn’t not surprising that Lynn Sloan was a portrait photographer, nor that she has turned to fiction writing. Her bent is an exploration of the truths of the human heart, and this collection demonstrates her remarkable gift for it. Possessing hugely different personalities and backgrounds, the characters are compelling, even those with small roles in the stories. Sloan is inventive and fearless in the situations in which she places her protagonists, and the results are painful, sometimes funny, and always illuminating. In every story her continual flashes of insight, so precisely rendered, remind us again and again how heartbreaking in all its complexities is the human dilemma.”--Sharon Solwitz, author of Once, in Lourdes: A NovelBlood and Milk: Stories, and Bloody MaryA Novel

“…intelligent, beautiful storytelling. Lynn Sloan’s stories exhibit a worldliness not often seen in fiction, focusing on characters who illuminate the complexities of modern life through brilliant allegory. She has a superb eye for detail and nuance….Sloan’s world is one of poverty and wealth, art and the quotidian, love and remorse, and in these apparent paradoxes she offers fascinating insights to the human soul. What a pleasure it is to read...”--Joe Ponepinto, author of Mr. Neutron

"Sloan's characters are rendered with sensitive and realistic detail throughout. In "Sunshine Every Day," the final story...drama is evoked along with the mundane: "The kettle shrieked. The clock in the dining room chimed the half-hour. She wished she had lived a different life." Stories that illustrate how life can look drastically different in retrospect."--Kirkus Reviews

“It isn’t not surprising that Lynn Sloan was a portrait photographer, nor that she has turned to fiction writing. Her bent is an exploration of the truths of the human heart, and this collection...


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Selected Praise for Lynn Sloan’s Principles of Navigation 

“ . . . a tender, thoughtful story of a couple whose once happy marriage dissolves amidst the stress of infertility and infidelity—and unmet expectations. . . . quietly compelling. It is by no means a heart-pounding page-turner, but it is a page-turner nonetheless, a subtle story that gnaws and needles long after the cover is closed.”—Chicago Book Review

 

“… moving and vivid…. unforgettable.”

Sharon Darrow, author of The Painters of Lexieville and Trash

 

“ . . . fascinating and gripping.”—Centered on Books

 

“[A]n absorbing, poignant novel that artfully distills the many ways in which love can fail us — yet also take us by surprise when we need it most.”

Katherine Shonk, author of Happy Now? and The Red Passport

 

“ . . . an annunciation, a miracle, . . . this novel of generation, of stasis, and of transformation.”— Newcity

 “I wanted to turn the page—no, I needed to turn the page. The payoff at the end made me glad that I did.”— The Collagist

“Beneath their outwardly conventional surfaces, both wife and husband reckon with realities darker and deeper and wilder than they had grown up to expect. For its psychological acuity and for its narrative grace, Principles of Navigation is at once deeply satisfying and unsettling.”

Richard Hawley, author of The Headmaster’s Papers, The Headmaster’s Wife, and The Other World.

 

“ . . . a hauntingly beautiful tale . . . ”—Booksie’s Blog

Sloan pushes back against stereotypes of gender and familial life, making a claim to a new and urgent sense of the domestic.” —Necessary Fiction

“Select this for your book club and enjoy discussing the unexpected twists and turns that lead to the evolving image of an unconventional family.”

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“ . . . this is a book which reeled me in slowly. . . .  Any writer who can keep me thinking of their characters even after I have finished reading their story, is an author I can highly recommend. If you love literary fiction, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of Principles of Navigation – I promise you won’t be disappointed.”—Caribou’s Mom

 

Selected Praise for Lynn Sloan’s Principles of Navigation 

“ . . . a tender, thoughtful story of a couple whose once happy marriage dissolves amidst the stress of infertility and infidelity—and...


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This was a really great read. Characters are well developed and likeable. This really ends up being a mystery with a great twist.
Is my BookClub's selection this month.

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The stories are extraordinary in their every day simplicity. I did not find them to be uplifting. They did not give me a feel-good glow. But they did introduce me to an outstanding author who was able to engage me with her thoughts and words. I urge you to read these stories slowly and give them the time and contemplation they deserve.

Thank you NetGalley and Fomite for my copy.

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