Fiction. In this captivating family saga, narrator Isidore Mirsky finds his close-knit family and community suddenly coming apart. Facing the illness of family members and the loss of homes in a recession-plagued urban town, he also contends with an overwhelming new desire—his feelings for his wife's sister. THE BURNING HOUSE finds its narrator at his most vulnerable, and explores what it means to be a good man amidst chaos. "THE BURNING HOUSE is an achingly lovely novel about the things that bind us together in this life and the things that pull us apart. Paul Lisicky has an extraordinary gift for exploring emotional nuance and the rhythms of desire. With this book he yet again asserts himself as one of the select writers who continues to teach me about the complexities of the human heart"—Robert Olen Butler.

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Paul Lisicky is the author of THE BURNING HOUSE (Etruscan Press, 2011), Famous Builder (Graywolf Press, 2002), and LAWNBOY (Turtle Point Press, 1999). His work has appeared in The Iowa Review, StoryQuarterly, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Prairie Schooner, and has been widely anthologized. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener/Copernicus Society, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has taught in the graduate writing programs at Cornell University, Rutgers-Newark, Sarah Lawrence College, and Antioch University Los Angeles. He currently teaches at NYU. He lives in New York City and Springs, New York.

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