Firelines: Mountains, Memories and Fire

by Micheline Burger

A multigenerational connection to mountains and memories is never permanent, no matter how much we all want it to be. The impermanence of the land and the memories that we create is never clearer than when fire destroys what we love. This deeply touching memoir reveals how the joys and sorrows of one family are bonded to the mountains they love and are forever vulnerable to destruction.Firelines, a memoir, explores the relationship between mountains and memories and the fires that threaten to destroy both. The Zacharias family’s connection to mountains, the Harz in their ancestral Germany and the Spanish Peaks in their adopted home, gave birth to intense memories. The wildfire of 2013 threatened both the tangible structures in the mountains and the memories that were born there. This deeply personal, yet universal, memoir of one family’s connection to the mountains explores the significance of a sense of place and the pain of facing loss through circumstances controlled by nature.

226 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 22, 2022