# Gideon Paull — Author Site > https://gidpaull.com Gideon Paull is an American novelist and nonfiction writer. He writes fiction and nonfiction that take ordinary life seriously — the marriages that strain and hold, the faith that flickers and returns, the person who shows up at exactly the right moment and changes everything. He lives and writes in California. ## Books ### The Held Breath (Novel — Published) > https://gidpaull.com/held-breath.html > Full book site: https://heldbreathbook.com A novel about marriage, ambition, and the distance between the life you build and the life you live inside it. Following a marriage over two decades, The Held Breath examines the gap between what 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. --- ### The Soul Framework (Spirituality / Nonfiction — Published) > https://gidpaull.com/soul-framework.html > Full book site: https://soulbook.pub 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 that wants more, and one that knows better. The story of your life is the war between them. For readers who are spiritual but not religious, and for anyone who has ever wondered why good people do things they know are wrong. --- ### Holloway (Novel — Forthcoming) > https://gidpaull.com/holloway.html 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 homelessness on the streets of Los Angeles in 1999 to a six-story development firm with her name behind it. A social worker named Renee sits beside her in the back of a police cruiser and asks not where her parents are but when she last ate. It is the first time in a long time Christine has been seen. Over the next three decades, Chris builds walls, then a company, then a life — and must finally learn how to take the walls down. A sweeping novel about the cost of what we build to survive, 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. Back cover: "Survival taught her to keep everyone out. Love would ask the opposite." --- ## About the Author Gideon Paull writes fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of love, faith, and survival. His debut novel The Held Breath has been compared to the work of Ian McEwan and Elizabeth Strout. His nonfiction The Soul Framework draws on the great spiritual traditions to map the interior life of human beings. His forthcoming novel Holloway spans thirty years in the life of a woman who survives the unsurvivable and spends everything she earns learning how to open a door for the next girl coming in from the night. ## Contact Gideon is available for book club conversations (virtual and in-person), podcast and media interviews, literary festival appearances, and speaking engagements on the themes of his work. Contact form: https://gidpaull.com/contact.html ## Site Pages - Home: https://gidpaull.com/ - All Books: https://gidpaull.com/books.html - The Held Breath: https://gidpaull.com/held-breath.html - The Soul Framework: https://gidpaull.com/soul-framework.html - Holloway: https://gidpaull.com/holloway.html - About: https://gidpaull.com/about.html - Contact: https://gidpaull.com/contact.html