Spinning at the Edges, Coming May 12, 2026

Winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for AS CLOSE TO US AS BREATHING Elizabeth Poliner’s SPINNING AT THE EDGES, set in Amsterdam, Washington, D.C., and small-town Connecticut, involving a county judge with a troubled past and a Dutch refugee from German-occupied Amsterdam with unresolved grief who, upon saving the life of a despairing teenager, begin a process of transformation toward fuller lives for themselves and others close to them, to Sarah Stein at Harper, in a pre-empt, by Duvall Osteen at UTA (NA).
Rights: Melissa Chinchillo