Gideon Paull
The Books
Two published, one forthcoming. Fiction and ideas that take ordinary life seriously.
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
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
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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