The Holy Fool by Harold Fickett (Fiction) - Slant Books
What do you do when life loses its plot? When the story you thought you were living has become a shamble?| Slant Books
What do you do when life loses its plot? When the story you thought you were living has become a shamble?| Slant Books
A young woman is dead. A man with diminished capacity is accused. His friends, also wounded, try to help him. In the process, they teach Jon Mote a thing or two he desperately needs to learn. Jon no longer hears voices, but he’s not convinced a silent universe is much better than a haunted one. […]| Slant Books
A timely, stylishly written, and brilliantly conceived metaphysical thriller, Coyote Fork carries us on an unforgettable journey, before bringing us face to face with the darkness at the heart of Silicon Valley itself.| Slant Books
I think moments from my own life always find their way into my fiction, but certainly this novel and my earlier short stories blend both personal experience and invention. That’s typical for most writers I know and have read about. The narrator, Joe, began as a character similar to me, but so did his girlfriend Ashley. I suppose they both mirror basic aspects of my life.| Slant Books
