The Fireman's Wife
by Jack Riggs
Jack Riggs, Writer-In-Residence at Georgia Perimeter College's Writers Institute, celebrates the publication of his second novel, The Fireman's Wife.
It's June 1970. As the low country of South Carolina burns in a seven-month drought, Cassie Johnson longs for escape: both from her husband, Peck, the town's newly promoted fire chief, who seems more interested in saving everyone else's life than in living his own, and from the low country marshes where Cassie has never quite felt at home. But as Peck and Cassie drift apart, their teenage daughter, Kelly, finds herself torn between her parents and her desperate need for normalcy. It will take a tumultuous journey back to the North Carolina mountains before Cassie can begin to understand the complicated love that resides, unrecognized, deep in her heart.
From a masterly voice in Southern fiction, The Fireman's Wife is an emotionally bare and moving novel about one woman's struggle to do what's right for her family, for her love, and for herself.
Riggs' debut, When the Finch Rises won the Georgia Author of the Year Award for first novel.
His follow-up has already been selected by Target stores as a "Breakout Book" for February, 2009.
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