Martha Beck’s Leaving the Saints is valuable . . . .Why? Because in my view the book is so very Mormon. There are rich and telling descriptions of the Church and of Mormon culture, particularly as it configures in Utah Valley,more precisely at church-owned Brigham Young University. Many of us are apt to …
In this lengthy review Les Roka references “American Trinity,” Pace’s first published short story and narrative precursor to Dream House on Golan Drive. “The sense of this unique, strange place of Utah and Mormonism is elucidated with conviction and accuracy….Dream House on Golan Drive is an important novel that deserves …
by Ellen Fagg Weist “If David Pace’s novel about a young man reared in a large, devoted Utah family rings with authenticity, that’s because its themes have autobiographical resonance for its author. “Pace, the literary editor of the Utah arts magazine 15 Bytes, will launch his first novel, “Dream House …
“[R]ife with the universal struggles between good and evil, sin and righteousness, culture and truth, strength and weakness, and [the] dissonance between what we gain through experiential learning and rote imprinting. Thought provoking, and at times humorous and heart wrenching, Dream House on Golan Drive is a multi-layered and artfully …
Co-sponsored by City Art and the Salt Lake City Public Library September 23, 2015 The City Library (Main) 210 E. 400 S. Salt Lake City, UT 7:00 PM Author David Pace will be reading from and discussing his debut novel Dream House on Golan Drive, which will be for sale and …
Announcing my first book: Dream House on Golan Drive, forthcoming from Signature Books (Salt Lake City) August 2015. It is the year 1972, and Riley Hartley finds that he, his family, community, and his faith are entirely indistinguishable from each other. He is eleven. A young woman named Lucy claims …
The following recently appeared in 15 Bytes: When he’s not busy raising money for Repertory Dance Theatre or editing 15 Bytes’ literary content, David Pace pounds away at his laptop, tablets and phone, writing his own fiction and essays. After two decades of writing and re-writing a novel manuscript, Pace …
“MOTHERLUNGE IS A FULL-FRONTAL assault on every dappled, dimpled and doily-enhanced image we’ve had of both women and mothers. Think Sandy or Orem, Utah—scrubbed clean with culturally-defined markers of motherhood, riven with Victorian charms that are neither really Victorian or charming. Then think the opposite.That is Scott’s literary world. That the story is also hysterically funny …
