The Stars Are Fire By Anita Shreve

Please join us in reading The Stars Are on Fire by Anita Shreve for our suggested monthly read!

We will be reviewing the book along with our monthly book club discussion questions for December 31st, 2017.

In October 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast from Bar Harbor to Kittery and are soon racing out of control from town to village.

Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. Along with her best friend, Rosie, and Rosie’s two young children, Grace watches helplessly as their houses burn to the ground, the flames finally forcing them all into the ocean as a last resort.

They spend the night frantically protecting their children and in the morning find their lives forever changed: homeless, penniless, awaiting news of their husbands’ fate, and left to face an uncertain future in a town that no longer exists.

In the midst of this devastating loss, Grace discovers glorious new freedoms–joys and triumphs she could never have expected her narrow life with Gene could contain–and her spirit soars. Then the unthinkable happens and Grace’s bravery is tested as never before.

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Praises for The Stars Are Fire:

USA Today says: “Like her sensational best-selling 1998 novel The Pilot’s Wife, about a widow who discovers her pilot husband had a second family, The Stars Are Fire explores what happens in the secret spaces between married people…Masterful… lingers long after the last page is turned, like the smoke from a wildfire.

People says: “Precise, evocative prose brings the story’s vivid characters to life…original and gripping.”

Booklist says: “This is a suspenseful and heartwarming story of not just overcoming but also growing in the face of great difficulty.”

Library Journal says: “Shreve’s prose mirrors the action of the fire, with popping embers of action, licks of blazing rage, and the slow burn of lyrical character development. Absolutely stunning.”

I am looking forward to reading this book!