The Float Test

PRE-ORDER FOR APRIL 8, 2025

The Float Test – A Powerful, Emotionally Layered Novel of Family, Secrets, and Survival

📚 From critically acclaimed author Lynn Steger Strong (Flight) comes The Float Test, a sophisticated, emotionally resonant novel about sibling rivalry, buried truths, and climate change, perfect for readers of The Dutch House and The Most Fun We Ever Had.

One Family. Four Siblings. Countless Secrets.

The Kenner siblings are barely holding it together:
🔹 Jenn is an overwhelmed mother crushed by family demands.
🔹 Fred, a once-celebrated novelist, has lost her faith in storytelling.
🔹 Jude, a recovering lawyer, carries a deep resentment toward Fred.
🔹 George, the youngest, is adrift after a broken marriage and hiding more than one secret.

Brought together after a life-altering loss, the siblings must navigate old wounds, new tensions, and the biggest secret of all—what really happened between Jude and Fred to destroy their once unshakable bond.

A Sweltering Summer of Reckoning

Set over the course of a humid Florida summer, The Float Test is a raw and compelling portrait of family love and dysfunction, exploring how climate, ambition, and unspoken trauma shape our most intimate relationships.

🌊 Elegant, emotionally charged, and deeply human, The Float Test is a literary tour de force about what it means to belong—to a family, to a story, and to a planet in crisis.