Lynn Sloan
Principles of Navigation
Fomite Press, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-937677-93-0 (paper)
ISBN: 978-1-937677-94-7 (epub)
Lets be honest. This is not a book review, but a plug for the recent release of Lynn Sloan’s Principles of Navigation released February 1, 2015 by Fomite Press. I remember vividly the struggles in Professor Sloan’s Bibliography & Research course at Columbia College Chicago. Sloan required that you be a critical, thoughtful and engaged thinker. Sloan has supported her stance via a voice that is highly detailed, emotionally unsettling, and requiring careful meditation in Principles of Navigation..
Lynn Sloan, Principles of Navigation, Fomite Press, 2015
Summary:
With scenes of tender beauty and empathy, Lynn Sloan’s visual, visceral prose breathes life into these characters, their separate and shared failures, struggles, and triumphs. Her luminous descriptions of place and people, swift and deft, almost photographic, yet painterly, bring this landscape and its inhabitants into full focus for the reader.
Critical Response:
“Stunning evocative details seen through the eyes of flawed, eminently human characters whose dreams seem incompatible are the unforgettable hallmarks of this moving and vivid, intimate portrait of a relationship shown from the alternating perspectives of both spouses, Alice and Rolly Becotte. Lynn Sloan’s debut novel is, like Alice and Rolly, unforgettable.”
—Sharon Darrow, author of The Painters of Lexieville and Trash.
“Principles of Navigation is an 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
“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.
Lynn Sloan is a writer and photographer who grew up as an Air Force brat, moving from state to state and country to country. Once she could decide where to live, she chose a share-your-tomatoes, shovel-your-neighbors’-snow neighborhood in Evanston, Illinois.
She graduated from Northwestern University, earned a master’s degree in photography at The Institute of Design, formerly the New Bauhaus. Her fine art photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and collected by major museums. For many years, she taught in the photography department of Columbia College Chicago and wrote for Afterimage, Art Week, and Exposure.
Writing about the visual arts led to writing fiction. Her stories have appeared in numerous journals, including American Literary Review, The Literary Review, Nimrod, and Sou’wester. Principles of Navigation is her first novel.
For additional information or to purchase Lynn Sloan’s, Principles of Navigation, please visit:
Lynn Sloan – http://www.lynnsloan.com/
Fomite Press – http://www.fomitepress.com/FOMITE/Navigation.html
Amazon – http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Navigation-Lynn-Sloan/dp/1937677931
Compiled by Chester Alamo-Costello
