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Who By Fire: A Novel
By Mary L. Tabor
For readers who crave the intelligence of Joan Didion, the interiority of James Salter, and the erotic ache of a love never fully grasped.
In this breathtakingly intimate and profoundly lyrical novel, Mary L. Tabor explores what happens when memory becomes a battleground—and love, a mystery we keep solving. Who By Fire follows a man unraveling the secrets of his marriage, his father, and himself in a story that dares to ask: how do we live with the people we’ve been, the choices we’ve made, and the betrayals we never saw coming?
Set against a richly textured backdrop of music, art, science, and the unspoken rules of love and marriage, this novel loops through time like a symphony, carried by a male narrator whose heartbreak is as exquisite as the prose. In his search for forgiveness—of himself and others—he discovers that understanding may be the most heroic act of all.
Originally lauded as “innovative, deeply engaging” by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler and “a lyric meditation on love and desire” by Lee Martin, Who By Fire returns in this newly reissued edition from Empress Editions—restoring a contemporary classic to the hands and hearts of readers who believe in the power of beautifully told truth.
For lovers of Kazuo Ishiguro, Rachel Cusk, and the radiant melancholy of a love that almost was.
Because some stories are quiet revolutions.
Paperback. Ships: 05.26.26
Who By Fire: A Novel
By Mary L. Tabor
For readers who crave the intelligence of Joan Didion, the interiority of James Salter, and the erotic ache of a love never fully grasped.
In this breathtakingly intimate and profoundly lyrical novel, Mary L. Tabor explores what happens when memory becomes a battleground—and love, a mystery we keep solving. Who By Fire follows a man unraveling the secrets of his marriage, his father, and himself in a story that dares to ask: how do we live with the people we’ve been, the choices we’ve made, and the betrayals we never saw coming?
Set against a richly textured backdrop of music, art, science, and the unspoken rules of love and marriage, this novel loops through time like a symphony, carried by a male narrator whose heartbreak is as exquisite as the prose. In his search for forgiveness—of himself and others—he discovers that understanding may be the most heroic act of all.
Originally lauded as “innovative, deeply engaging” by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler and “a lyric meditation on love and desire” by Lee Martin, Who By Fire returns in this newly reissued edition from Empress Editions—restoring a contemporary classic to the hands and hearts of readers who believe in the power of beautifully told truth.
For lovers of Kazuo Ishiguro, Rachel Cusk, and the radiant melancholy of a love that almost was.
Because some stories are quiet revolutions.
Paperback. Ships: 05.26.26