Charles, the narrator of Morgan Talty’s debut novel, Fire Exit, does not know when exactly his daughter, Elizabeth, was born. For days, he sat on the riverbank, staring at a darkened house on the othe...

From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation. He caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth's life--...

A TIME, The New Yorker, ELLE, NPR, Harper’s Bazaar Best Book of the Year. Finalist 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award. Longlisted for 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize, 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. “Utterly consuming. . . . Fire Exit absolutely smolders.”—Tommy Orange.

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