The Stars Are Fire

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The brilliantly gripping new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Pilot's Wife (an Oprah's Book Club selection) Hot breath on Grace's face Claire is screaming & Grace is on her feet As she lifts her daughter a wall of fire fills the window Perhaps a quarter of a mile back if even that Where's Gene? Didn't he come home? 1947 Fires are racing along the coast of Maine after a summer-long drought ravaging thousands of acres causing unprecedented confusion & fear Five months pregnant Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her difficult & unpredictable husband Gene joins the volunteers fighting to bring the fire under control Along with her best friend Rosie & Rosie's two young children the women watch in horror as their houses go up in flames then walk into the ocean as a last resort They spend the night frantically trying to save their children When dawn comes they have miraculously survived but their lives are forever changed homeless penniless & left to face an uncertain future As Grace awaits news of her husband's fate she is thrust into a new world in which she must make a life on her own beginning with absolutely nothing; she must find work a home a way to provide for her children In the midst of devastating loss Grace discovers glorious new freedoms
- joys & triumphs she could never have expected her narrow life with Gene could contain
- & her spirit soars & then the unthinkable happens & Grace's bravery is tested as never before