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"…witty, profound, and wonderfully observed…"
— Margot Livesey

"Hart's Maine panorama is wealthy with eccentric characters…the reader will flow on a cloud 9 of stylish entertainment."
— Mameve Medwed

"[Float] is all of these items: cheerful and troubling, hilarious and somber, evocative and introspective."
— Stefanie Freele, helpful Fiction

When every thing round you is sinking, occasionally it takes determined measures to stick afloat.

When Duncan Leland appears down on the garbage-strewn seashore underneath his place of work window, he sees the phrases God aid Us scrawled within the sand. whereas it kind of feels a becoming message—not in simple terms is Duncan’s enterprise underwater, yet his marriage is drowning as well—he is going right down to the seashore to erase it. as soon as there, he is helping a seagull being strangled via a plastic six-pack holder—the purely creature in worse form than he's on the moment.

Duncan rescues the seagull, now not knowing that he’s being filmed through a gaggle of conceptual artists and that the pictures will quickly pass viral, turning either him and the gull into minor celebrities. And while an unsavory but very convincing neighborhood, Osbert Marpol, talks him right into a not-quite-legitimate personal loan association, Duncan can’t aid yet agree in a last-ditch try to keep the roles of his employees.

For your time, it kind of feels as though issues are ultimately taking a look up for Duncan—yet among his phone-sex-entrepreneur ex-girlfriend’s very public flirtations and the ever-mysterious phrases of his new mortgage, Duncan realizes that there’s no such factor as strings-free salvation—and that it’s just a topic of time sooner than the tide rises ominously round him again.

A wry story of monetary desperation, conceptual artwork, madness, infertility, seagulls, marital drawback, jellyfish, prepared crime, and the plight of a plastic-filled ocean, JoeAnn Hart’s novel takes a wise, satirical examine family members, the surroundings, and existence in a hardscrabble seashore city in Maine.