June 16, 2015
Thanks to Lambda Literary for the glowing review of The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far.
“In the first few pages of Quintan Ana Wikswo’s debut story collection, The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far, you might wonder where you are. You might wonder where you’re going. You might, if you’re the type of reader who likes to be certain about your time and place in space, have to tell yourself to relax. You might have to sit tight and be patient with the unknowing.
I promise you it will be worth it.”
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In the collection’s final story, “The Double Nautilus,” a claustrophobic rendering of the circuitous journeys we undertake in our search for love and wholeness, the narrator says, “We are subterranean tunnel lovers, and the single shell now contains us both, with no membrane in between… She says this has been here all this time. That we merely needed the strength to go deep enough.” In The Hope of Floating Has Carried Us This Far, Quintan Ana Wikswo proves herself unafraid of the depths.
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“Color photos accompany Wikswo’s poetic, heady language; a series of uncanny images intersperse each story. It’s an unexpected set-up for a collection, but it works—the images lend an unsettling and atmospheric charge.”
