For Out of the Heart Proceed
Pithy and pertinent, Jensen Beach's stories reach out and grab you in the opening line, and they don't let go until the final period. This writer's not into wasting words.  He makes every one count. His fiction is both direct and vivid, and I found a surprise or two on virtually every page. I feel tremendous enthusiasm for this young writer's work.-STEVE YARBROUGH, AUTHOR OF SAFE FROM NEIGHBORSThe stories in Jensen Beach's debut collection unfold menacingly in plain daylight. They seduce us into feeling at ease until the ground gives way under our feet. Here are people who hope to love and to protect those they love and people who fall down trying. Who burn down and stand up and heroically (stubbornly!) begin to live again.-NOY HOLLAND, AUTHOR OF WHAT BEGINS WITH BIRDThis book holds some of the most beautiful father and son stories I have ever read. This book is the father I never had. -MICHAEL KIMBALL, AUTHOR OF US It's easy to let a day, or a set of days, pass by; nothing is singular about them, or so it seems...and then you read Jensen Beach's wonderful collection, and you see how there is horror and joy, ugliness and beauty in the everyday, and you're missing it. Read For out of the Heart Proceed, and then enter your day with better eyes.-LINDSAY HUNTER, AUTHOR OF DADDY'S