false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg 1093302 2 <div>Finely-honed portraits of hope and change, these two novellas are linked so skillfully that they achieve the intensity of a single novel in which some characters succeed and others fail on separate but equally compelling quests. In "The Fires," Gina Morgan makes a pilgrimage to Uzbekistan to carry out her husband's final wish&#8212;to be cremated&#8212;only to find herself entirely at sea in the strange new reality of the former Soviet republic, while in "The Exorcism," Tom Swanson begins to make sense of his life when he retrieves his angry daughter from her exclusive New England college after her expulsion for setting fire to a grand piano.</div> 1080118 1 9 2007 The Fires total:17|5:6|4:3|3:6|2:1|1:1| 17 63 28 5 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 5 0 false Wed Jul 30 10:05:42 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 10:06:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 3 0 false Sun Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 17:15:36 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 17:15:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 5 0 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 12:57:04 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 27 11:31:54 -0800 2007
In "The Fires," Gina Morgan makes a pilgrimage to Uzbekistan to carry out her husband's final wish only to discover that in this former Soviet republic things are not as they used to be. And in "Th...more...]]> 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 3 0 false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 21:49:50 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 21:51:11 -0700 2009 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 3 0 false Wed Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 17:03:07 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 16:45:00 -0800 2008 these stories are both deeply felt family dramas, but because they were told so economically, they never ran the risk of becoming sappy. nice reading.]]> 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 4 0 false Sun Nov 29 12:11:54 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 12:12:05 -0800 2009 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 0 0 false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 07:15:48 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 07:16:18 -0700 2009 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 0 0 false Thu Aug 13 10:31:25 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 10:31:25 -0700 2009 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 3 0 false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 10:38:43 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 04:44:29 -0700 2009 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 0 0 false Thu Jul 30 13:11:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 18:54:53 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 13:11:00 -0700 2009 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 5 0 false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 00:47:14 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 24 10:09:23 -0700 2009 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 3 0 false Fri Apr 10 10:46:01 -0700 2009 Thu Feb 12 04:09:38 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 10 10:46:01 -0700 2009 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 3 0 false Sat Feb 07 07:32:04 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 07:32:04 -0800 2009 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 0 0 false Tue Feb 03 10:08:50 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 09:04:58 -0800 2009 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 5 0 false Tue Jan 06 04:37:13 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 04:37:25 -0800 2009 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 4 0 false Sat Nov 22 09:58:16 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 09:58:16 -0800 2008 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 0 0 false Tue Oct 14 12:39:11 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 12:39:11 -0700 2008 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 0 0 false Thu Sep 04 08:04:01 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 08:04:01 -0700 2008 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 1 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Aug 20 15:07:05 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 05 14:11:51 -0800 2008 1093302 0977679918 9780977679911 16 5 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180921037m/1093302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1093302.The_Fires 0 0 false Wed Aug 20 13:39:46 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 13:39:49 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1093302