"As Strong grapples insightfully with questions of who really owns a story, we're also asked to consider what it means to truly love another person, flaws and all -- and, not only that, to turn the lens back on ourselves." -- New York Times "Lynn Steger Strong's exquisitely written fourth novel, The Float Test, is a piercing portrait of the Kenner clan . Steger Strong here experiments with point-of-view and memory, at times seeming to interrogate the validity of the novel form itself." -- Washington Post "The Float Test is a family drama at its finest." -- Town & Country "Strong explores the dynamics of siblinghood--alliances and grudges--and interrogates what it means to claim family stories as your own." -- New Yorker "An engaging portrait of family dynamics." -- People "Strong's characters are deeply interior, but hers are not static, solipsistic books; they have an engrossing momentum, this one included." -- Vogue Not only does the story yield a fascinating meditation on the nature of fiction, but it exhibits profound empathy for each of the characters.

This is Strong's best yet. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "The way Lynn Steger Strong weaves the complicated web of inter-sibling relationships and the wizardry of family toxicity is a wonder, and I'm her #1 fan." -- Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life "With surgical precision, Lynn Steger Strong dissects and then elegantly reconstructs an American family on the brink: of falling apart, of finding themselves, of saying all the things left unsaid. From the collateral damage inevitably caused by artists, to the notion that perhaps we are who we always were, Strong's clear and confident voice and prose makes the unvarnished truths in this book sting. But that same quality makes the moments of profound tenderness and humanity linger. The Float Test--and the Floridian world of this clan--will stay with me for a long time to come." -- Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Anita de Monte Laughs Last "What I loved most about The Float Test is the sense of place, and how the sticky, dense heat of Florida, the relentless sun, the flat roads ending at the ocean, is woven into the Kenner family's DNA. The adult children of the family--all at crisis points in their own lives--gather on the hot ground of their childhood following their mother's death, where they try to untangle decades of betrayals and sorrow, and reclaim their sense of home.

" -- Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful.