The Secrets of a Fire King: Stories

Showcasing the intensity and perception of a truly gifted writer, this collection of stories by the author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter transports us to exotic locations as it follows the lives of those on the fringes of society - a fire-eater, an American and his Korean war bride, a juggler and a trapeze artist, a cleaning woman whose life is interwoven with Marie Currie's. Each must confront, in dramatically different ways, the barriers of time, place, and circumstance in that most universal of human experiences: the quest to discover, and understand, the elusive mysteries of love.