This short novel tells the story of a marriage gone adrift through the eyes of its 17 year old narrator. It’s a story told through its gaps: things happen but you never see them happening, you just hear about the consequences of actions taken and the decisions made in good faith by the characters.

Written in a beautifully sparse, poetic style, the story is set in a small American town, around which a forest fire is burning. Inside the inferno a man, a woman and their son negotiate their relationships to each other and to life.

Things don’t turn out as you’d expect.

Wonderful.