Fire in the Heart: A Memoir of Friendship, Loss, and Wildfire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781628728439)

FIRE IN THE HEART is a powerful memoir by a woman, once a shy, insecure schoolgirl, who reinvented herself as a professional wildlands firefighter. Determined to forge herself into a stronger, braver person, Mary devotes herself to fire from the Florida swamp to Alaska's interior. Filled with literal struggles for survival, tough choices and Mary's burning passion for what she does, Fire in the Heart, is an unflinching account of one woman's relationship with fire. But when she loses a close friend to the famous Storm King Mountain forest fire in Colorado, which killed fourteen firefighters, Mary faces the hardest choice of her life; to stay in the game or turn back and try to find the woman she used to be. It is both a thrilling memoir about life-threatening work and a meditation on identity, strength, bravery, bonds, and survivor's guilt.

Author: Mary Emerick
ISBN-10: 1628728434
ISBN-13: 9781628728439
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Language: English
Published: 09/05/2017
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2017