Woodsburner : a Nove

The Washington Post - Ron Charles: The fire that "flows like brilliant liquid" through Concord Woods is a natural engine for a terrifically exciting story, and Pipkin conveys such a visceral impression of the "clever flames crouching in the branches" that you can feel the heat radiating off these pages?Pipkin has invented?men and women consumed by their own passions. They provide a fascinating impression of the nation when it was still young and swelling and struggling to define itself. They see the Concord fire through their own private flames?fire is everywhere in this novel?and Pipkin allows them to brush up against each other in the most subtle and ingenious ways.