02078cam a2200397 i 4500 292454733 TxAuBib 20170518120000.0 161104s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016032868 9780385350907 0385350902 TxAuBib rda Shreve, Anita. The stars are fire [Book] : a novel / Anita Shreve. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. ©2017. 241 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi Book" -- t.p. verso. A novel based on the true story of the largest fire in Maine's history follows the experiences of a pregnant woman who struggles to protect her two young children and watches her home burn while her husband joins the volunteer firefighters. October 1947. After a summer long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast and are soon racing out of control. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. Along with her best friend, Rosie, and Rosie's two young children, Grace watches helplessly as their houses burn to the ground, the flames finally forcing them all into the ocean as a last resort. Awaiting news of their husbands' fate, facing an uncertain future in a town that no longer exists, Grace discovers joys and triumphs she could never have expected her narrow life with Gene could contain. 20170518. 1947. Great Fire, Maine, 1947 Fiction. Life change events Fiction. Single mothers Fiction. Wildfires Maine History Fiction. Forest fires Maine History Fiction. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction.