THE PRIVATE DICK is a tongue-in-cheek detective thriller. Order it now HERE!
CLOSER TO FREEDOM collects prose & poetry written by incarcerated authors who attended Chris's prison writing workshop.
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Who Am I to Judge?, a provocative collection of stories, is now available HERE!
The Vote is a comedic take on the divisions splitting our country in half. Order it HERE!
Go to SHRIVER page HERE!
Chris Belden's people are complex, flawed, and doing their baffled best to navigate their lives. They are fathers, sons, mothers, daughters, husbands, wives, friends, ex-lovers, neighbors and in them, we recognize our own longings, our own bafflement. But it is Lake Tawaba itself that emerges as the central character: dark, deep, and full of mystery. This is a quietly beautiful collection of stories.
-- Dani Shapiro, author of Slow Motion and Family History
The Floating Lady of Lake Tawaba reads like a melody about what seems to be an average tale of an average community. But it becomes so much more and so deeply stirring because of Belden's gift in seeing truth while it eludes others, and finding redemption when all seems hopeless.
-- Da Chen, author of Colors of the Mountain and My Last Empress
You will devour [I devoured] these wonderful stories. Belden delves deeply into the lives of everyday people who are made memorable by his masterful storytelling. Not only did I laugh out loud at the humor, wit and charm of his writing, I delighted in discovering the subtle connectivity that binds this collection. It’s a book I’ll keep nearby to read again.
-- Eugenia Kim, author of The Calligrapher’s Daughter
The Floating Lady of Lake Tawaba: Stories
Carry-on
From its first grimly hilarious scene in the economy cabin of a plane headed west, Carry-On takes us on an unforgettable journey through the shifting terrain of a marriage gone wrong. As Caleb struggles to understand what has become of him and his wife, we move through bars and cheap motels, through the stark beauty of the Pacific Northwest, and through intricate layers of memory to approach slowly, inexorably, the darkest regions of anger and love. A powerful novel that tightens like a net around an unsuspecting reader; you will not put it down.
--Nalini Jones, author of What You Call Winter
To read Carry-on is to enter into the mind of a character as obsessive and compelling as any of Roth’s and as funny and incisive as any of Franzen’s. Chris Belden’s tautly crafted book is chock-full of dark delight.
-- Rachel Basch, author of The Passion of Reverend Nash
Crisp, smart, funny, Belden's prose seals the deal, delivering on Flannery O'Connor's dictum that great fiction must ‘convince with the senses.’ Carry-On is a seriously good read.
--Pete Duval, author of Rear View
