Playing with Wildfire

An immersive story of a changing landscape, innovatively told.KIRKUSWhen a wildfire bears down on a mountain community,residents are forced to gather for safetyresulting in a tangle of love andlust that pulls people from their isolation, friendships that form acrosspolitical divides, and a new hope for rethinking the ways humans inhabit theburning planet.Playing with Wildfireis a literary landscapethat is an experiment in form: an astrology report; a grantapplication-turned-love-story; a phone call from Mother Earth; an obituary fora wildfire; a burned mountains conversation with a lone woman and an injuredbear.Every story captures how fire affects the human psyche andlife, and how destruction can lead to renewal.