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"Fire Exit, Morgan Talty's debut novel, is utterly consuming. The novel absolutely smolders." -- Tommy OrangeDoes she remember this day? Does she remember it at all? Does she know this history -- this story -- her body holds secret from her?. 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. On the far bank, he caught brief moments of Roger and Mary raising their only child, Elizabeth -- from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there's always been something deeper and more dangerous than the river that divides him from this family and the rest of the tribal community. It's the secret that Elizabeth is his daughter, a secret Charles is no longer willing to keep.