Sarah Ruiz-Grossman

A Fire So Wild (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With the emotional echoes of Little Fires Everywhere and the lush atmosphere of Disappearing Earth, a riveting debut novel in which a wildfire creeps toward Berkeley, California, igniting tensions as characters from all walks of life confront the injustices lying beneath the city's surface.

As a wildfire threatens Berkeley, the city's inhabitants are forced to reckon with the cracks in the lives they've built.

Abigail, a wealthy homeowner, decides to throw a lavish birthday in a hillside mansion to raise money for the city's newest affordable housing projectand prove to her family that she's made something worthwhile of her life. Sunny, a construction worker who sleeps in a van along the bay's shore, is in the running for an apartmentbut only if enough funds are raised at the party.

As the heat and smoke from the approaching blaze descend upon the town, tensions rise and residentsyoung and old, haves and have notsconfront the inequities laid bare, and the fragility of building a life in a world on fire.

Alternating among a colorful cast of characters, A Fire So Wild is a timely, tautly paced novel that questions why when everything burns, not everyone is left with scars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063305441
• Artikelnr.: 68250361

Autorenporträt

Sarah S. Grossman is a writer and former reporter at HuffPost, where she covered the climate crisis and other social justice issues. She lives in California with her husband and their pit bull.