Fire Sermon (Paperback)

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Fire Sermon (Paperback)

By Jamie Quatro

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“I'm presently gobsmacked by and head-over-heels in love with Jamie Quatro's Fire Sermon, a gorgeous, searing first novel that takes on themes of grace, God, desire, truth, and family. Told in an array of tenses and forms that range from poetry to e-mail (and everything in between), Fire Sermon takes great risks stylistically, as well as topically, leaving nothing stable in its wake. It is unsparing and uncompromising, singular, innervating, and strong, and it is a deeply, wonderfully stirring work of art.”
— Will Walton, Avid Bookshop, Athens, GA

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Reading Jamie Quatro's Fire Sermon is like a baptism in sensation. Fraught, sexy, and solemn, the novel details writer Maggie's flawed and prolonged attempts to navigate a labyrinth of obligations to her husband, her scholarly ambition, her extramarital desire, and her God. Expertly paced and thoughtfully arranged, it's a rich, contradictory, and deeply human story. You'll burn through this book and feel it smoking in your head long after you finish.

— From Katelyn

"It would be difficult to overstate the wonder I felt while reading this novel. It's among the most beautiful books I've ever read about longing--for beauty, for sex, for God, for a coherent life."--Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You

Maggie is entirely devoted to her husband Thomas, their two beautiful children, and to God--until what begins as a platonic intellectual and spiritual exchange between writer Maggie and poet James transforms into an erotically-charged bond that challenges Maggie's sense of loyalty and morality, drawing her deeper into the darkness of desire.

A daring debut novel of obsession, lust, and salvation by the highly lauded author of the story collection, I Want To Show You More, Fire Sermon is a tour de force that charts with bold intimacy and immersive sensuality the life of a married woman in the grip of a magnetic affair.

JAMIE QUATRO is the author of I Want To Show You More. She is a visiting professor in the Sewanee School of Letters MFA program, a contributing editor at Oxford American, and lives with her husband and children in Lookout Mountain, Georgia.
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Product Details ISBN: 9780802128980
ISBN-10: 080212898X
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Date: November 13th, 2018
Pages: 224
Language: English