Fire Exit

Fire ExitLonglisted for the Center For Fiction 2024 First Novel Prize Remarkable.NPR SpellbindingTIME, A Best Book of Summer Utterly consuming. . . . Fire Exit absolutely smolders.Tommy Orange From the award winning author of Night of the Living Rez, comes a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another. From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he

WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE

Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year

author of Dread Nation

and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them

the reality-warping force of capital

Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen

attempting to impress his classmate Holly and single-handedly wrecking his soccer team’s perfect season

and embracing the comedy of daily existence

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise

and social scenes

Please resume your former dark

and the rootless and decadent generation that inhabited it