Subtlety ought to be on an endangered literary species list, but Brent Robison brilliantly makes the case for its essentiality in this exquisite collection of webbed stories. These stories argue that everything is a facet of the same jewel and we touch each other's lives in unfathomable ways. To read them is to heighten one's bond with strangers.
—Djelloul Marbrook, award-winning poet/novelist, Far from Algiers, The Light Piercing Water Trilogy
Rich, layered images take us deep inside the lives of Robison's characters, their stories weaving together a tapestry as textured as it is beautiful. Brent Robison's stories are reminiscent of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio - stories of ordinary people caught in the crosshairs of circumstance, sometimes of their own making, sometimes not. All of them heroic in their honest struggle to find meaning and ultimately love.... A gorgeous, timeless collection about longing.
—Susan Richards, NY Times bestselling author, Chosen by a Horse, Saddled, Chosen Forever
Brent Robison's superbly crafted collection of short stories doesn't shy away from its central thesis - that we are all cross-wired with each other in ways both obvious and finely nuanced. Some of these intersections are collisions of circumstance (think the movies Magnolia or Crash) that seem coincidental but really aren't. Others are the shared pains and longings and failings that identify us all as humans, but here again there's something larger and more ineffable at work linking characters in different stories. Buddhists, Jungians, and even quantum theorists would have a field day with the output of Robison's imagination.
—Ned White, Moonbeam Award winning author
The Principle of Ultimate Indivisibility is a collection of linked short stories, and each one of them is a delight: a sparsely-written, surprising delight which illuminates unexpected corners of its characters' lives and in so doing, reveals their obsessions, loves and longings with ruthless clarity.
—Jane Smith, The Self-Publishing Review
It's a feast of food for thought, a richly imagined reality that looks much like our own would if we could really see it. Robison has a lyrical and evocative style and a deep affection for human foibles, and wandering through the maze he has woven is oddly intoxicating.
—Anne Pyburn Craig, Chronogram magazine
