TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shreve,Anita
TI  - The stars are fire: a novel 
SN  - 9780385350907
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Great Fire (Maine : 1947)
KW  - fast
KW  - Great Fire, Maine, 1947
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Single mothers
KW  - Wildfires
KW  - Maine
KW  - History
KW  - Forest fires
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
N2  - A novel based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history follows the experiences of a pregnant woman who struggles to protect her two young children and watches her home burn while her husband joins the volunteer firefighters; October 1947. After a summer long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast and are soon racing out of control. 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. Awaiting news of their husbands' fate, facing an uncertain future in a town that no longer exists, Grace discovers joys and triumphs she could never have expected her narrow life with Gene could contain
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