Hydroplane - Reviews

"Experimental but never opaque, Steinberg's stories seethe with real and imagined menace."

—Publishers Weekly

"Reading Susan Steinberg's remarkable short-story collection, Hydroplane, is like being the sole eyewitness of a devastating car wreck on a lonely stretch of highway....It takes you on a mesmerizing, hypnotic journey into a strange, parallel universe of lost souls who live in a frenetic world that is always on the verge of running out of control."

—San Francisco Chronicle

"Susan Steinberg needn't offer excuses for the darkness of her stories. When you tunnel down as emotionally deep as she does, very little light makes it through."

—San Diego Union-Tribune

"Steinberg proved that she can play with form in her debut, The End of Free Love (2003), and she continues to scratch sparks against the predictable in her second collection, which is reminiscent of works by Mary Robison and Amy Hempel....Steinberg walks a delicate line here between real life and hidden association, sentiment and reality, and she does so with ease."

—Booklist

"You don't just read Susan Steinberg's stories; you hold on tight to her words and go along for the ride."

—Hartford Courant