A forest burning: A novel

by Carole Giangrande

Spanning two countries and the turbulent era of the 1960's, the Viet Nam war and social conflict, A Forest Burning is a suspense-filled novel about memory, truth and forgiveness.

"Carole Giangrande's rich and ambitious new novel, A Forest Burning , is a story of generations of loss, soul baring, and secrets."
-- Quill & Quire

"In chronicling three generations of war-inflicted loss, in crisscrossing the U.S.-Canadian border during the years of war and protest, Giangrande takes on serious themes and handles them with confidence. And her language is carefully wrought, often epigrammatic."
-- The Danforth Review

334 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2000

About the author

I'm the author of four novels - The Tender Birds (2019), All That is Solid Melts into Air (2017), winner of the 2018 Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Literary Fiction (both published by Inanna), A Forest Burning (2000) and An Ordinary Star (2004), both published by Cormorant Books, along with a short story collection, Missing Persons (1994). My novellas include A Gardener on the Moon (Quattro, 2010), winner of the Ken Klonsky Award; Midsummer (2014) and Here Comes The Dreamer (2015) both published by Inanna. I also write essays and poetry; my essay "Goshawk" won a Lyric Essay Award in July 2016 and was published in Eastern Iowa Review, and another essay, "Death of a Red-Tailed Hawk," appeared in EcoTheo Review (Oct. 2018) and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. My first chidren's book, Do I Have To Go To Sleep? has just been published by Penumbra Books. Born and raised in the New York City area, I now live in Toronto, where I enjoy books, birding, photography and improving my French conversation.