Fire Exit A Novel

Morgan Talty

eBook - 2024

Longlisted for the Center For Fiction 2024 First Novel Prize "Remarkable."—NPR "Spellbinding"—TIME, 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 might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation. He caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth's life—from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there's something deeper and m...ore dangerous than the river that divides him from her and the rest of the tribal community. It's the secret that Elizabeth is his daughter, a secret Charles is no longer willing to... more