Fire Exit
ABOUT
THE BOOK
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 more 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 keep.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Charles Lamosway secretly fathered a daughter and has spent the last two decades watching her grow up across the river on the Penobscot Reservation, a community in which he has deep familial bonds but no right to belong because his ties are not genetic. Morgan Talty’s debut novel is a feat of magic, deftly delivering both gut-wrenching sadness and overwhelming love in one slim, spare volume.