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.