American Book Review of The Goodbye House

by | Apr 12, 2016 | Reviews

D. Star Costello’s review of The Goodbye House appeared in the January-February issue of American Book Review.  “The Goodbye House is a novel that strips away the gloss of the American Dream and reveals the everyday people struggling...

Camp Olvido named one of the best novellas of 2015

by | Jan 11, 2016 | News, Reviews

“There are some books when, after you finish them, leave you breathless, quiet, and thoughtful. Camp Olvido stunned me into silence. I sat there with this universe in my hand for the longest time.” Camp Olvido was named one of the best novellas of 2015 by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.  The list included Mesilla, by Robert James Russell, and On the Island at the Center of the Center of the World, by Elizabeth...

Midwest Book Review of “Camp Olvido”

by | Dec 28, 2015 | News, Reviews

Midwest Book Review featured Camp Olvido in its December Bookwatch.  “A fully absorbing novella by a true master of the storytelling arts, Camp Olvido  by novelist Lawrence Coates is a highly recommended and deftly crafted literary work that will linger in the mind and memory long after it is finished and set back upon the...

University of Utah’s Reading Room

by | Nov 24, 2015 | News, Reviews

The University of Utah’s Alumni Connection featured Camp Olvido in their Reading Room feature. In the California heartland in 1932, at a migrant labor camp whose very name means “forgotten,” a child’s sudden illness leads to tensions between workers wishing to break camp and the land barons enforcing their contracts. Into this dispute, Esteban Alas—contrabandista and self-styled businessman—is reluctantly drawn as a mediator, until an act of violence forces him into a more tragic...