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David Pace is an author and editor who lives in Utah.

He has received awards for his novel, short fiction and narrative nonfiction and has been published in Quarterly West, ellipsis...literature and art, Alligator Juniper, Huffington Post, The Quarter(ly), and Bangalore Revie,. Sunstone and Dialogue, among other journals and magazines.

His most recent book is "American Trinity and Other Stories from the Mormon Corridor" published by BCC Press (2024).

His debut novel "Dream House on Golan Drive" was published in 2015 (Signature Press). He also appears in the anthologies "The Path & The Gate," in 2023 (Signature Books), "Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild" in 2021 (Torrey House Press), "Moth & Rust: Mormon Encoun ...more

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	Dream House on Golan Drive 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A Death in the Family: Review of Carys Bray's "A Song for Issy Bradley"

[This review originally appeared in 15 Bytes Magazine, May 2015]

A Song for Issy Bradley
Carys Bray
Ballantine Books (2014)
330 pp.
There’s a moment in A Song for Issy Bradley, Carys Bray’s luminous first novel (and 15 Bytes Book Award finalist this year), when a teenage Mormon girl named Zippy is asked at a party she’s not supposed to be at, “[I]f you weren’t already a member, would you join the C Read more of this blog post »

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