HEAVEN HAS EYES BOOK TOUR

In tender, luminous writing, Philip Holden explores piercing psychological questions about what it is like to be haunted by one's past. Set in Singapore, Vancouver, London, and the spaces in between, the short stories in Heaven Has Eyes offer an imaginative, penetrating look at the complexities of migration, belonging, and a desire to find a home in the world.

Philip Holden will be in New York, Boston and Vancouver between January to February 2026 to launch Heaven Has Eyes. Please check out the book tour dates and locations – we'd love for you to join us!

Brookline Booksmith Transnational Series: Philip Holden

Date & Time: Thursday, January 29, 7pm
Location: Brookline Booksmith (279 Harvard St, Brookline)

Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for an in-store event with author Philip Holden and moderator Shubha Sunder to discuss and honor the release of Heaven Has Eyes.

Philip Holden’s life has spanned three continents, with its center of gravity in Singapore, where he taught and researched Singapore and Southeast Asian writing at university in a career spanning three decades. He is the author of critical, historical, biographical, and fictional writing, investigating questions of identity, belonging, and agency. Now a registered clinical counsellor, he explores the intersections of storytelling and mental health through work in Guided Autobiography and in facilitating lived-experience stories.

Shubha Sunder is a 2025 Whiting Award winner and the author of Optional Practical Training, an immigrant novel set in Boston that won the 2025 New American Voices Award and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her first book, Boomtown Girl, a short story collection set in her hometown of Bangalore, India, won the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award. She currently teaches in the creative writing MFA program at UMass Boston.