Fire Exit A Novel

Morgan Talty

eBook - 2024

A TIME, The New Yorker, ELLE, NPR, Harper’s Bazaar Best Book of the YearWinner of the 2025 Housatonic Book AwardFinalist 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the 2024 Maya Angelou Book AwardShortlisted for the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature AwardLonglisted for the 2025 VCU Cabell First Novel Award, 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction“Utterly consuming. . . . Fire Exit absolutely smolders.”―Tommy OrangeFrom 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... more