Golden Heart Parade

Golden Heart Parade, winner of a Santa Fe Writers Project Book Award, is the debut story collection from Joseph Holt. It’s available now from Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indiebound, and Santa Fe Writers Project.

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What others say:
“Golden Heart Parade introduces characters in mutiny against themselves and the status quo. These stories are comic and heartbreaking.” —Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen and Stop That Girl

“The narrators in Golden Heart Parade are my favorite kind of floundering misfits—the underemployed, wanderers and dreamers, wait-and-see-ers. A tender and surprising collection with sharp prose and even sharper dialogue that I’ll revisit again and again.” —Mary Miller, author of Biloxi and Always Happy Hour

“Like Richard Ford in Rock Springs, Holt tells the stories of people with hard lives, who keep fighting even when the odds are against them. His characters are always compelling, and their stories are rich and crazy and off the rails.” —Mary Grimm, author of Left to Themselves and Stealing Time

“The unpredictable stories of Golden Heart Parade hurtle through startling surprises and sharp turns ... we’re often caught just where moments of desperation could lead to bad decisions, to laughter, or both.” —Peter Rock, author of The Night Swimmers and My Abandonment (adapted to film as Leave No Trace)

"Golden Heart Parade is searing, funny, surprising. The stories these characters tell about themselves—and re-tell about themselves—change in compelling and unexpected ways." —Lee Conell, author of Subcortical and The Party Upstairs

Downloads:
Media Kit
Hi-Res Cover Image
Hi-Res Author Photo
Reading Guide / Book Club Q’s

Reviewer link:
Edelweiss