"Book after captivating book, Elizabeth Poliner has been building an exceptional body of work full of characters who rise up from her pages and perform exquisite, literary magic. Spinning at the Edges is, simply, a marvel, because Poliner knows a story of lasting quality needs no flashing neon lights but only people who get up from their beds and go on with lives both simple and complex. Poliner does this with uncommon skill whether her people are fleeing World War II Amsterdam or skating in the dark on a Connecticut lake or walking the streets of Washington, D.C." — 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