 
Float by JoeAnn Hart
Fiction / 281 pages / Paperback
Ashland Creek Press /
February, 2013 Dear Reader, Float began innocently enough as a novel of manners set in a coastal Maine town, but as I began to write about fishing and the oceans, it quickly became much more. The moral core of  the novel evolved into a complex question of what is the responsibility of humans to the natural world. I hope you will enjoy the story of Float, but I also hope that after you have read it, you will see plastic in a fresh light, and think of its future, which is infinite, and ours, which is not. Stay afloat, JoeAnn JOEANN HART IS GIVING AWAY 5 COPIES OF FLOAT. ENTER TO WIN A COPY.
About Float:
Float is a salty satire of financial desperation, conceptual art, and the plight of a plastics-filled ocean. This environmentally smart novel follows Duncan Leland, owner of a Maine dehydration plant that turns fish waste into fertilizer. Throughout the story, he struggles to stay afloat while navigating the turbulent waters between him and his estranged wife, an obsessive mother, a sexually aggressive ex-girlfriend, a chef who is experimental to the point of danger, a plant supervisor who puts the needs of marine life over the business, and a shady partner who values the business more than Duncan's life.
Reviews of Float: "A unique assemblage of fabulously funny, hopelessly conflicted characters. Real human drama with earnest, intelligent characters doing and saying the absurd all while in search of something better."
-Cape Ann Beacon
"Float is all of these things: joyful and troubling, hilarious and somber, evocative and introspective."
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