Playing with Wildfire

"An immersive story of a changing landscape, innovatively told."

—KIRKUS

When a wildfire bears down on a mountain community,residents are forced to gather for safety—resulting 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 Wildfire is 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 mountain’s 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.