Gideon Paull
The Books
Five books across two shelves — fiction and non-fiction that take ordinary life seriously.
Shelf One
Fiction
Novels about the outer life we build and the inner life we live.
About the Book
A novel about ambition and what it takes from the people who live beside it. Following a marriage over two decades, The Held Breath examines the gap between the life a couple builds together and the interior lives they can never quite share — and the moment, quiet and devastating, when that gap becomes impossible to ignore.
For readers of Ian McEwan, Elizabeth Strout, and Richard Russo.
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About the Book
She was fifteen years old, eighty-nine pounds, homeless, starving, and had been in Los Angeles for six days when a stranger's hand closed around her arm. Holloway follows Christine Holloway across thirty years — from the streets of Los Angeles to a six-story building with her name behind it.
A sweeping novel about survival and its aftermath: the person we become to make it through, the cost of the walls we build, and the quiet, decisive power of showing up for someone the way someone once showed up for us.
For readers of Hanya Yanagihara, Ann Patchett, and Celeste Ng.
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Non-Fiction
The interior life, mapped across the world's great spiritual traditions.
About the Book
The Soul Framework maps the two souls inside every human being — drawing on the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Quran, Kabbalah, Sufi mysticism, and modern psychology — to explain why we love, sin, and long for God.
Inside every human being live two souls. One wants more. One knows better. The story of your life is the war between them.
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About the Book
Soul Mates draws on Kabbalistic mysticism, Platonic philosophy, Sufi poetry, and Hindu scripture to answer the question most books on the subject never ask: not how to find your soul mate, but how to become the person who can recognize them when they arrive.
Building on the ideas of The Soul Framework, it explains what a soul mate truly is, why the mortal soul's intense attractions are so easily mistaken for it, and how to prepare the inner conditions in which genuine recognition becomes possible.
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About the Book
You are carrying two souls — and only one of them is going anywhere. The Return follows that second, immortal soul past death, showing how the Kabbalah, the Tibetan and Egyptian traditions, Plato, the mystics, and modern near-death research all describe the same journey.
The third book of The Soul Framework series. It reframes death as a homecoming — and reframes the whole of life around what the soul will carry home. A book about dying that turns out to be a book about how to live.
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