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From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty’s debut novel, Fire Exit, is a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another. From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched...

Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty—with...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION FINALIST FOR THE 2024 MAYA ANGELOU BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL...

From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation. He caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth's life--from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there's something deeper...

A Most Anticipated Book of the Year at LitHub “I am not predicting literary success for Morgan Talty, I am guaranteeing it. He is a fascinating and powerful and singular writer.” —Rick Bass, author of For a Little While How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in...