Fire Sermon

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This "startlingly original" novel from the author of I Want to Show You More offers "a profound and profoundly strange meditation on desire" (Claire Dederer The Atlantic). Jamie Quatros remarkable debut story collection I Want to Show You More announced her as "a writer of great originality" (New York Times Book Review). Now with her first novel Quatro delivers a portrait of female desire and the complexities of a marriage. Married twenty years to Thomas and living in Nashville with their two children Maggie is drawn ineluctably into a passionate affair while still fiercely committed to her husband and family. What begins as a platonic exchange between writer Maggie and poet James gradually transforms into an emotional and erotically-charged bond that challenges Maggies sense of loyalty and morality drawing her into the depths of desire. Using an array of narrative techniques and written in spare elegant prose Jamie Quatro gives us a compelling account of one womans emotional psychological physical and spiritual yearningsunveiling the impulses and contradictions that reside in us all. Fire Sermon "full of vivid mercurial prose breathes new life into its subject and sets it gloriously ablaze" (Claire Luchette O Magazine).