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Fire Exit

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Fire Exit

Written by: Morgan Talty
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
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 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE 2024 MAYA ANGELOU BOOK AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker • TIME • NPR • ELLE • Amazon • ABC Arts

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 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.

Now, it’s been weeks since he’s seen Elizabeth, and Charles is worried. As he attempts to hold on to and care for what he can—his home and property; his alcoholic and bighearted friend Bobby; and his mother, Louise, who is slipping deeper into dementia—he becomes increasingly haunted by his past. Forced to confront a lost childhood on the reservation, a love affair cut short, and the death of his beloved stepfather, Fredrick, Charles contends with questions he’s long been afraid to ask. Is his secret about Elizabeth his to share? And would his daughter want to know the truth, even if it could cost her everything she’s ever known? Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Indigenous Creators Literary Fiction World Literature Heartfelt Maine
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I feel less alone in the world after listening to this. The writing reminds me of Elizabeth Strout- spare but intimate. Gosh I listened to the short stories and loved them too. Don’t ever stop writing Morgan Talty ! Narrator spot on also. Beautifully done.

WOW such an authentic writer

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