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From the New York Times best-selling writer of The Weight of Water and The Pilot’s Wife (an Oprah’s Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new book about a fantastic young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermath–based on the true story of the largest open fire in Maine’s history

In October 1947, after a summer lengthy drought, fires use all along the Maine coast from Club Harbor to Kittery and so are soon racing out of about The Celebrities Are Fire: A Novel control from town to village. Five weeks pregnant, Elegance Holland is left alone to safeguard her two toddlers when her husband, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. Along with her closest friend, Rosie, and Rosie’s two small children, Grace watches helplessly as their homes burn to the ground, the flames finally forcing all of them into the sea as a final resort. The women spend the night frantically protecting their kids, and in the morning find their lives forever transformed: homeless, penniless, awaiting information of their husbands’ destiny, and left to handle an uncertain upcoming in a town that no more exists. In the midst of this devastating reduction, Grace discovers glorious new freedoms–joys and triumphs she could do not have expected her narrow existence with Gene could contain–and her spirit soars. And then the unthinkable happens–and Grace’s bravery is tested as never before.