Fire Exit A Novel

Morgan Talty

eBook - 2024

A TIME, The New Yorker, ELLE, NPR, Harper's Bazaar Best Book of the Year Finalist 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award Longlisted for 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 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 br...ief 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 more dangerous than the... more