Four Fires
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Authors
Lance, Brian
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2015-12-23T00:00:00-08:00
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Four Fires is a 90,000-word novel about coming of age in a military family. The story follows three generations of American veterans, capturing the nature of military tradition and our obsession with war. After Elijah Alcott’s father, an Army Ranger, falls from a helicopter in a fatal training accident in 1993, Elijah is sent to live with his paternal grandfather, Papa, in rural Washington. There he meets his cousins, Eric and John, and the girl next door, Simone. Together they navigate the pitfalls of love, friendship, loss, and things left unfinished, all under the specter of military heritage, of past wars, and of future wars that will tear them apart. Four Fires examines the full extent of war’s impact on its participants and observers, both before and after battle. But it goes beyond the retelling of wartime experience, seeking the root of war’s influence as its stories and myths pass from one generation to the next.