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Who by Fire: a serial novel
Who by Fire is told by Robert, Lena’s husband, as he attempts to understand her affair with Isaac, an affair he’s become aware of after her death. He imagines the story of his wife and her lover. Robert, the narrator, is trying to know himself in the story he is writing as he tells his imagined version of his wife’s betrayal. The story becomes a paradoxical tale of his own undoing that he comes to realize by telling it.
Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer says: Mary L. Tabor’s Who by Fire is a lovely, innovative, deeply engaging novel about how it is that human beings make their way through the mysteries of existence.
Lee Martin, finalist for the Pulitzer says: Mary L. Tabor’s Who by Fire is a lyric meditation on love and desire, one that will catch you up in the blaze of its eroticism, its tender evocation of love and the passions and accommodations of a life lived through the flesh and through the imagination. Can memory lead to forgiveness? Who by Fire explores that question in a story I won’t soon forget. The beauty of the prose, the nuances of the characters, the ever-building plot—everything is in place for a novel that will touch you in all the right ways.
Table of Contents
Full audio for each chapter, followed by prose. The full novel (audio, print and Kindle) is available on Amazon.
Epigraph and Prologue (audio and prose)
Chapter 1: The Fire (audio and prose)
The Fire: prose 2
The Fire: prose 3
Chapter 2: Music (audio and prose)
Music: prose 2
Music: prose 3
Chapter 3: The Lovers (audio and prose )
The Lovers: prose 2
The Lovers: prose 3
The Lovers: prose 4
The Lovers: prose 5
The Lovers: prose 6
The Lovers: prose 7
Chapter 4: Me and Lena (audio and prose)
Me and Lena: prose 2
Chapter 5: Evan (audio and prose)
Evan: prose 2
Evan: prose 3
Evan: prose 4
Evan: prose 5
Chapter 6 The Tabard Inn (audio and prose)
Chapter 7 The Music Lesson (audio and prose)
Chapter 8 Revenge? (audio and prose)
Chapter 9 Robert (audio and prose)
Chapter 10 Robert (audio and prose)
Chapter 11 Parsing Lena (audio and prose)
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