From the author of the acclaimed As Close to Us as Breathing, a captivating novel steeped in history, revealing the bonds of family and community, and the healing powers hidden inside broken hearts.

“Spinning at the Edges is, simply, a marvel.”

            – Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World

“Elizabeth Poliner’s Spinning at the Edges cracks the surface of the present to expose the underlying turbulence of the silenced past. In pages resonant with the heartbreak of history, she lets us glimpse the ways our lives can collide, and the unexpected gifts these collisions can give.”

            – Rachel Kadish, author of The Weight of Ink

“Spinning at the Edges is an absorbing story of entangled lives—a meditation on grief and justice, the weight of the past, and the dizzying uncertainties of the future.”

            – Alice McDermott, National Book Award winner, author of Absolution