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An immersive story of a changing landscape, innovatively told. n--KIRKUSn nWhen a wildfire bears down on a mountain community, nresidents are forced to gather for safety--resulting in a tangle of love and nlust that pulls people from their isolation, friendships that form across npolitical divides, and a new hope for rethinking the ways humans inhabit the nburning planet. Playing with Wildfire is a literary landscape nthat is an experiment in form: an astrology report; a grant napplication-turned-love-story; a phone call from Mother Earth; an obituary for na wildfire; a burned mountain's conversation with a lone woman and an injured nbear. Every story captures how fire affects the human psyche and nlife, and how destruction can lead to renewal.n n nThe broad sweeping compassion of this polyvocal novel takes my breath away.n n--CAMILLE T. DUNGY, author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Gardenn n nn nWhen a wildfire bears down on a mountain community, residents are forced to gather for safety--resulting in a tangle of love and lust that pulls people from their isolation, friendships that form across political divides, and a new hope for rethinking the ways humans inhabit the burning planet. Playing with Wildfire is a literary landscape that is an experiment in form: an astrology report; a grant application-turned-love-story; a phone call from Mother Earth; an obituary for a wildfire; a burned mountain's conversation with a lone woman and an injured bear. Every story captur