A NIGHT by the FIRE

One Labor Day evening, at the fire circle where his family has gathered for six generations, Clinton Atwater doesn't put out the fire. He adds another log.

A Night by the Fire is twenty-five stories from Shady Acres — logged-over land his grandfather had the vision to see in 1964. As a child, Clinton's whole world was inside the wire: a single strand strung around the property. It's where he learned to tell a story, long before he ever stood in front of an audience.

It's also the story of a man who chose his own path — a career eight hundred miles from home — and has spent years learning to hold that choice with no regrets, even as he wonders what a place like this becomes once the people who remember it start to go.

The book doesn't resolve what comes next. That's for the ones who come after to decide.

Come sit down. The night is just getting started.