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LocationOakland
Call NoF DAM
TitleThe burning side / Sarah Damoff.
AuthorDamoff, Sarah, author.
Barcode47660111122756
CollectionFiction
Summary When April and Leo’s house burns in the middle of the night, they escape with their two young children and the quiet knowledge that the fire is not the only thing threatening their family. They retreat to April’s childhood home in Dallas, where her spirited parents and siblings provide both comfort and complication. As the family reckons with the aftermath—grief, guilt, logistics, and memories scorched and intact—the fire exposes the cracks already forming in April and Leo’s marriage. The novel unfolds in alternating perspectives: from April, who feels the crushing weight of motherhood, marriage, and self-blame; from Leo, a high school history teacher shaped by a lonely, fractured childhood; from Deb, April’s generous and no-nonsense mother who has to contend with her husband’s recent Alzheimer’s diagnosis; and from flashbacks that trace April and Leo’s relationship from its earliest days of connection to the devastating decisions that led them here.
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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781668085011 hardcover
Other Classification Number FIC019000 bisacsh
Other Classification Number FIC045010 bisacsh
Personal Name Damoff, Sarah, author.
Title Statement The burning side / Sarah Damoff.
Edition Statement First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Simon & Schuster, 2026.
Physical Description 321 p. hardcover 23 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. When April and Leo’s house burns in the middle of the night, they escape with their two young children and the quiet knowledge that the fire is not the only thing threatening their family. They retreat to April’s childhood home in Dallas, where her spirited parents and siblings provide both comfort and complication. As the family reckons with the aftermath—grief, guilt, logistics, and memories scorched and intact—the fire exposes the cracks already forming in April and Leo’s marriage. The novel unfolds in alternating perspectives: from April, who feels the crushing weight of motherhood, marriage, and self-blame; from Leo, a high school history teacher shaped by a lonely, fractured childhood; from Deb, April’s generous and no-nonsense mother who has to contend with her husband’s recent Alzheimer’s diagnosis; and from flashbacks that trace April and Leo’s relationship from its earliest days of connection to the devastating decisions that led them here.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term FICTION / Literary bisacsh
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce bisacsh
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Death, grief, bereavement Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Multigenerational Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Literary Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Domestic fiction lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels lcgft