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SUMMARY:Fire Exit Paperback Book Launch: Morgan Talty in Conversation wi
 th Gibran Graham
DESCRIPTION:The Briar Patch is thrilled to invite you to celebrate the p
 aperback book launch for Morgan Talty’s novel FIRE EXIT on Monday\, Ja
 nuary 26 at 6pm at Wabanaki Public Health &amp\; Wellness at 16 Central 
 Street in Bangor\, Maine. Morgan will be in conversation with Gibran Gra
 ham\, owner of The Briar Patch\, about the book\, publishing and what's 
 happening since it first debuted.Won’t you join us for this night of c
 onversation and celebration?\n\n\n\nABOUT FIRE EXITFrom the award-winnin
 g author of Night of the Living Rez\, Morgan Talty’s debut novel\, Fir
 e Exit\, is a masterful and unforgettable story of family\, legacy\, blo
 odlines\, culture and inheritance\, and what\, if anything\, we owe one 
 another.From the porch of his home\, Charles Lamosway has watched the li
 fe he might have had unfold across the river on Maine’s Penobscot Rese
 rvation. On the far bank\, he caught brief moments of his neighbor Eliza
 beth’s life—from the day she came home from the hospital to her earl
 y twenties. But there’s always been something deeper and more dangerou
 s than the river that divides him from her and the rest of the tribal co
 mmunity. It’s the secret that Elizabeth is his daughter\, a secret Cha
 rles 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 an
 d care for what he can—his home and property\; his alcoholic\, quick-t
 empered\, and bighearted friend Bobby\; and his mother\, Louise\, who is
  slipping ever deeper into dementia—he becomes increasingly haunted by
  his past. Forced to confront a lost childhood on the reservation\, a lo
 ve affair cut short\, and the death of his beloved stepfather\, Fredrick
 \, in a hunting accident—a death he and Louise are at odds over as to 
 where to lay blame—Charles contends with questions he’s long been af
 raid to ask. Is his secret about Elizabeth his to share? And would his d
 aughter want to know the truth\, even if it could cost her everything sh
 e’s ever known?\n\n\n\nABOUT MORGAN TALTYMorgan Talty is a citizen of 
 the Penobscot Indian Nation. He is the author of the nationally bestsell
 ing and acclaimed short story collection\, The Night of the Living Rez. 
 His writing has appeared in The Georgia Review\, Granta\, Shenandoah\, T
 riQuarterly\, Narrative\, Lit Hub\, and elsewhere. Talty is an assistant
  professor of English in Creative Writing and Native American and Contem
 porary Literature at the University of Maine\, Orono\, and he is on the 
 faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing as well as the Institu
 te of American Indian Arts. He lives in Levant\, Maine.
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