The Fires - Tapa blanda

"The two novellas that make up "The Fires"-- one of sorrow and one of radiance-- are filled with characters trying to maneuver that space between creation and destruction." -- Ana Menendez, author, "Loving Che" and "In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd"

"The two novellas that make up "The Fires"--one of sorrow and one of radiance--are filled with characters trying to maneuver that space between creation and destruction." --Ana Menendez, author, "Loving Che" and "In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd"

"The two novellas that make up "The Fires"one of sorrow and one of radianceare filled with characters trying to maneuver that space between creation and destruction." Ana Menendez, author, "Loving Che" and "In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd""

""The Fires" offers the twin bequeathing of profound sadness and enchantment. Mr. Cheuse is a writer of immense gifts."Howard Norman, author, "The Bird Artist" and "Devotion""

"One of the smartest, most trustworthy reviewers in America. Now he shows us where he gets his authoritya fiction writer of startling talent." John Gardner, author, "Grendel" and "The Sunlight Dialogues""

"[Cheuse] reminds us how close art and chaos really are." "The New York Times Book Review""

Finely-honed portraits of hope and change, these two novellas are linked so skillfully that they achieve the intensity of a single novel in which some characters succeed and others fail on separate but equally compelling quests. In "The Fires," Gina Morgan makes a pilgrimage to Uzbekistan to carry out her husband's final wish?to be cremated?only to find herself entirely at sea in the strange new reality of the former Soviet republic, while in "The Exorcism," Tom Swanson begins to make sense of his life when he retrieves his angry daughter from her exclusive New England college after her expulsion for setting fire to a grand piano.