The Finest Fire

It's the 1980s, and work in Colebrook, is hard to come by. When Michelle loses her job at Tillotson Rubber, she decides to take her chances and move to Berlin, New Hampshire to start fresh, away from her domineering mother.

But escaping family trauma takes more than just a change of address, and as Michelle settles in to a new life and a new romantic relationship, she faces the fact that real change, and real healing, can actually be a life's work.

Filled with period detail and lively characters, The Finest Fire is a loving portrait of the hardscrabble world of northern New England and the ways in which we can build our own family and find our own place, and the tragedies that can happen if we don't.