“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 Novel, Blood and Milk: Stories, and Bloody Mary: A 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

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.”

—Hungry for Good Books?

“ . . . 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