{"product_id":"the-evolution-of-fire-essays-on-crisis-and-becoming-9781639551231","title":"The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Evolution of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is stunningly written--vivid in imagery, in the braiding together of language, and in the honoring of every person it shines a light on.\"--Hanif Abdurraqib, author of \u003ci\u003eThere's Always This Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eLimber\u003c\/i\u003e, a luminous collection of essays about crisis, hope, and the decision to resist or embrace evolution--a book about time, for our time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrisis is an agent of evolution, and Angela Pelster knows what it means to evolve. As a child, she burned grass to keep weeds at bay and watched tadpoles transform. She basked in the warmth of her father's love but was burned by his rage, and she witnessed a sudden, unnamable change occur in her older sister after an encounter with a stranger in a white van. In adulthood, she survived the explosion of her marriage, the destruction of her burning home, and a year spent as the single mother of a toddler without a home of their own. And like us all, she has weathered the upheaval of our current atmosphere--political instability, climate change, mass extinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in spite of the world's violence, Pelster manages to remain open to its beauty, deciding not to resist change, but to give herself over to it and let evolution make her into a new animal. She plumbs the depths of ancestral knowledge to uncover the scale of our ancient capacity for adaptation, from humankind's early harnessing of fire to the grandmothers responsible for our continued existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeditative and curious, pulsing with fascination, fear, and the untamable human spirit, \u003ci\u003eThe Evolution of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e contemplates who we are now and what we still might become. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-7235119\"\u003eAngela Pelster\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639551231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639551239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SCI\"\u003eScience\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SCI092000\"\u003eGlobal Warming \u0026amp; Climate Change\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT025020\"\u003eSubjects \u0026amp; Themes | Nature\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngela Pelster\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the essay collection \u003ci\u003eLimber\u003c\/i\u003e, a winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award for nonfiction. She was a 2021 McKnight Artist Fellow chosen by Hanif Abdurraqib. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Gettysburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She's been a Katherine Bakeless Nason Bread Loaf Fellow in nonfiction, a Minnesota State Arts Board grantee, and was an Iowa Arts fellow during her MFA at the University of Iowa. She currently teaches at Hamline University and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52939378295083,"sku":"9781639551231","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0884\/7966\/2379\/files\/img_64e995a3-8f20-4110-b947-3ae0b76347cf.jpg?v=1774024197","url":"https:\/\/www.txcorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/the-evolution-of-fire-essays-on-crisis-and-becoming-9781639551231","provider":"TX CorrectionsBookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}