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Also by Alan Cheuse:

Prayers for the Living, March 2015
Paperback (reprint)
Song Of Slaves In The Desert, March 2011
Hardcover
Where Light takes its Color From the Sea, April 2008
Hardcover
The Fires, September 2007
Paperback

THE FIRES
By: Alan Cheuse

Santa Fe Writer's Project
September 2007
On Sale: September 1, 2007
128 pages
ISBN: 0977679918
EAN: 9780977679911
Paperback
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Fiction

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.

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