Awards

• Long-listed for Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Okra Picks 2020
• Runner-up for Weatherford Award for Fiction 2021
• Short-listed for Foreword Indies 2021
• Winner of Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY) 2021

Overview

A chilling, timely reminder of the moral and human costs of racial hatred. What happens when a delusional white supremacist and his army of followers decide to create a racially pure ""Little Europe"" within a rural Tennessee community? As the town's residents grapple with their new reality, minor skirmishes escalate and dirty politics, scandals, and a cataclysmic chain of violence follows. In this uncanny reflection of our time, award-winning novelist Charles Dodd White asks whether Americans can save themselves from their worst impulses and considers the consequences when this salvation comes too late.

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Line for line, White is one of the most talented writers at work in the American South. -- David Joy, author of The Line that Held Us A work of both artistic merit and a significant (and timely) contribution to our ongoing national discussion of extremism. -- Mark Powell, author of Firebird and Small Treasons Charles Dodd White puts to use his deep knowledge of the people who live in eastern Tennessee, the good as well as the bad. It's a powerful portrayal of contemporary life in a landscape that serves as its own omnipresent character. White's work gets better and better. -- Chris Offutt, author of Country Dark How Fire Runs is at once elemental and blisteringly contemporary-a story rooted in our past, yet crackling amid the fires of the American present. Charles Dodd White writes with the steady hand of a master, confronting complicated truths and emotions with clear eyes and grace, giving us a constellation of characters grappling over the identity of their town... and America itself. This is a brave and important novel from one of our best. -- Taylor Brown, author of Gods of Howl Mountain and Pride of Eden Both action-packed and introspective, How Fire Runs is a timely literary thriller that is hard to put down. Charles Dodd White continues to prove himself as one of the best prose stylists of Appalachian literature in a novel that transcends region to become raw commentary on this volatile moment in America. -- Silas House, author of Southernmost

Line for line, White is one of the most talented writers at work in the American South. -- David Joy, author of The Line that Held Us A work of both artistic merit and a significant (and timely) contribution to our ongoing national discussion of extremism. -- Mark Powell, author of Firebird and Small Treasons Charles Dodd White puts to use his deep knowledge of the people who live in eastern Tennessee, the good as well as the bad. How Fire Runs is a powerful portrayal of contemporary life in a landscape that serves as its own omnipresent character. White's work gets better and better. -- Chris Offutt, author of Country Dark How Fire Runs is at once elemental and blisteringly contemporary-a story rooted in our past, yet crackling amid the fires of the American present. Charles Dodd White writes with the steady hand of a master, confronting complicated truths and emotions with clear eyes and grace, giving us a constellation of characters grappling over the identity of their town... and America itself. This is a brave and important novel from one of our best. -- Taylor Brown, author of Gods of Howl Mountain and Pride of Eden

Line for line, White is one of the most talented writers at work in the American South. -- David Joy, author of The Line that Held Us A work of artistic merit and a significant (and timely) contribution to our ongoing national discussion of extremism. -- Mark Powell, author of Firebird: A Novel With artfully complex characters...White's work captures the rhythms of rural life as they begin to beat faster in the face of calamity. * Booklist * Charles Dodd White puts to use his deep knowledge of the people who live in eastern Tennessee, the good as well as the bad. It's a powerful portrayal of contemporary life in a landscape that serves as its own omnipresent character. White's work gets better and better. -- Chris Offutt, author of Country Dark How Fire Runs is at once elemental and blisteringly contemporary-a story rooted in our past, yet crackling amid the fires of the American present. Charles Dodd White writes with the steady hand of a master, confronting complicated truths and emotions with clear eyes and grace, giving us a constellation of characters grappling over the identity of their town... and America itself. This is a brave and important novel from one of our best. -- Taylor Brown, author of Pride of Eden [A] spellbinding tale....Well-drawn characters are matched by evocative prose. Socially conscious readers will want to check this out. * Publishers Weekly * Both action-packed and introspective, How Fire Runs is a timely literary thriller that is hard to put down. Charles Dodd White continues to prove himself as one of the best prose stylists of Appalachian literature in a novel that transcends region to become raw commentary on this volatile moment in America. -- Silas House, author of Southernmost White imbues his prose with deep compassion and finely honed storytelling. These skills were already on display in White's 2018 novel, In the House of Wilderness, but here they accelerate, fueled by powerful confrontation with the violent racism and environmental hazards that endanger our current national atmosphere. White holds nothing back, and these scenes spark and blaze. -- Emily Choate * Chapter 16 *

Line for line, White is one of the most talented writers at work in the American South. -- David Joy, author of The Line that Held Us A work of both artistic merit and a significant (and timely) contribution to our ongoing national discussion of extremism. -- Mark Powell, author of Firebird and Small Treasons Charles Dodd White puts to use his deep knowledge of the people who live in eastern Tennessee, the good as well as the bad. How Fire Runs is a powerful portrayal of contemporary life in a landscape that serves as its own omnipresent character. White's work gets better and better. -- Chris Offutt, author of Country Dark How Fire Runs is at once elemental and blisteringly contemporary-a story rooted in our past, yet crackling amid the fires of the American present. Charles Dodd White writes with the steady hand of a master, confronting complicated truths and emotions with clear eyes and grace, giving us a constellation of characters grappling over the identity of their town... and America itself. This is a brave and important novel from one of our best. -- Taylor Brown, author of Gods of Howl Mountain and Pride of Eden Both action-packed and introspective, How Fire Runs is a timely literary thriller that is hard to put down. Charles Dodd White continues to prove himself as one of the best prose stylists of Appalachian literature in a novel that transcends region to become raw commentary on this volatile moment in America. -- Silas House, author of Southernmost

Author Information

Charles Dodd White is the author of four novels, including two from Swallow Press: How Fire Runs and In the House of Wilderness. He has received the Appalachian Book of the Year Award and the Chaffin Award for his fiction. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is an associate professor of English at Pellissippi State Community College.

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