Fire Sermon

A Novel

By: Jamie Quatro

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

Jamie Quatro's remarkable first book of stories I Want to Show You More published to spectacular reviews, announcing her arrival to American letters as "a writer of great originality" (New York Times Book Review). Now, with her debut novel, Fire Sermon, Quatro delivers a startlingly original portrait of an obsession and the complexities of a marriage.

Married 20 years to Thomas and living in Nashville with their two children, Maggie is drawn ineluctably into a passionate affair while still fiercely committed to her husband and family. What begins as a platonic intellectual and spiritual exchange between writer Maggie and poet James, gradually transforms into an emotional and erotically-charged bond that challenges Maggie's sense of loyalty and morality, drawing her deeper into the darkness of desire.

Using an array of narrative techniques and written in spare, elegant prose, Jamie Quatro gives us a compelling account of one woman's emotional, psychological, physical, and spiritual yearnings - unveiling the impulses and contradictions that reside in us all. Fire Sermon is an unflinchingly honest and formally daring debut novel from a writer of enormous talent.

©2018 Jamie Quatro (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Perhaps not what I expected?

I was lost and confused in much of this book. The ending was nice. The writing approach is interesting. It jumps around. Hard to follow. Sorry but I didn’t like it.

meh!

another difficult book..narrator wonderful and moments of poetry exist but mostly boring people with boring problems

Brutal and absolutely beautiful

Novels that tell this kind of intimate truth about the nature of sexuality, marriage and society are rare gift.