"A collection of rather disturbing short stories.
'Enjoyed' really wouldn't be the right word.
'Impressed' would be nearer the mark."
"There are no safe, saccharine fairy tale endings.
This is contemporary Brothers Grimm for adults."
"It is no mean achievement to sustain such a story-like
lyricism over the long haul of a book-length collection.
This is a remarkable debut. A keeper that keeps keeping on.”
~ Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone
“The stories in Erin Pringle’s first collection possess the charm
of fairy tales, the wisdom of poems, the hope of prayers,
the weight of eulogies, and the intimacy of letters home.”
~Tom Noyes, author of Spooky Action at a Distance and Other Stories
"There are no easy answers in The Floating Order,
only a sense of disturbance and dread,
offset by flashes of beauty. In this way, the book traps life
in the 21st century and displays it in all its awful radiance."
~Southwestern American Literature
"Just as her stories thrive on a kind of profitable restlessness, The Floating Order feels significant by virtue of its narrative, structural and thematic variety."
~John Regan, Women: A Cultural Review
"Just as her stories thrive on a kind of profitable restlessness, The Floating Order feels significant by virtue of its narrative, structural and thematic variety."
~John Regan, Women: A Cultural Review
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- Austin Chronicle - "The Great Escape"
- Dan Powell Fiction - "Short Story Challenge"
- Size Matters: The Mini-Comic Blog - Review of "The Only Child" by Shawn Hoke
- Southwestern American Literature (Fall 2009) - Review on The Floating Order by Margo Wilson, XXXV,1: 89
- Texas Books in Review (Summer 2009) - Review by Rene LeBlanc, Vol XXIX, No 2.
- The Reading Experience - "I Wouldn't Explain" by Daniel Green
- The Short Review - Review by Pauline Masurel
- Women: A Cultural Review - "More Than Women and Cats" by John Regan, Volume 22, Issues 2-3, p 278-281
