Fire Exit
- Auteur: Morgan Talty (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, native American novel
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: And Other Stories
- Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2024
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- “In propulsive, spell-binding prose, Fire Exit delves into the far-reaching consequences of blood quantum and examines the intersections of familial care and sacrifice. Once again, Talty proves himself witty, wise, and a voice of our age.” (Jonathan Escoffery, Amerikaanse schrijver)
- “Exquisite. An achingly beautiful, profound exploration of familial ties and their wreckages. Fire Exit cements the arrival of a very exciting new voice. I can’t wait to see what Morgan Talty does next.” (Irenosen Okojie, Nigeriaanse schrijfster)
Flaptekst van de roman van Morgan Talty
A lone white man lives beside the river on the edge of the Penobscot reservation in Maine. Charles spends his days doing odd jobs, looking after his mother as her lifelong depression intensifies, and staring across the water to the reservation, at the house in which his daughter has grown up. Elizabeth, his daughter, doesn’t know he exists.
Charles spent his own childhood on the same reservation, with a Native stepfather who treated him as his son – until tragedy struck, leaving a burning hole at the centre of their lives. As an adult Charles was forced to leave the reservation. When his first love Mary found out she was pregnant, she decided to conceal their daughter’s true heritage, in order to ensure Elizabeth’s tribal enrollment.
In her twenties now, Elizabeth is struggling. Observed from afar by her real father, who can see the connection between his daughter and his mother, the cracks in the foundations of Elizabeth’s life are beginning to show. As firmly as Charles believes the truth will set them all free, the price of it may be the destruction of them all.
Fire Exit is a novel of exceptional heart. It’s a deeply layered story of family and blood ties; full of quiet, beautiful, and dignified sentences, it shows us intergenerational connections from all angles, and their capacity to break, reform, fade, or strengthen, while always remaining a part of us.
Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation, and bon in born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the author of the critically acclaimed linked story collection Night of the Living Rez (USA: Tin House Books 2022; UK: And Other Stories 2025), winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Best First Book. His writing has appeared in Granta and The Guardian amongst others, and he was selected by Karen Russell as a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. Talty is an Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contemporary Literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in creative writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Levant, Maine.