Playing with Wildfire

"The broad sweeping compassion of this polyvocal novel takes
my breath away."

--CAMILLE T. DUNGY, author of Soil: The Story of a
Black Mother's Garden

When a wildfire bears down on a mountain community,
residents are forced to gather for safety--resulting in a tangle of love and
lust that pulls people from their isolation, friendships that form across
political divides, and a new hope for rethinking the ways humans inhabit the
burning planet. Playing with Wildfire is a literary landscape
that is an experiment in form: an astrology report; a grant
application-turned-love-story; a phone call from Mother Earth; an obituary for
a wildfire; a burned mountain's conversation with a lone woman and an injured
bear. Every story captures how fire affects the human psyche and
life, and how destruction can lead to renewal.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Published: 02/13/2024
ISBN: 9781948814898
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.55d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 12/04/2023
Booklist 12/01/2023 pg. 100