Community Author Read and Discussion: Playing with (Wild)Fire

This Community Read will culminate during the Crested Butte Center for the Arts’ Mountain Words Festival with a free author talk at the Crested Butte Center for the Arts’ Steddy Theatre on Sunday, May 26th at 2pm. Join us in a literary adventure & community conversation!

In collaboration with the Crested Butte Center for the Arts and Western’s Leslie J. Savage Library.

FREE COPIES of Playing with (Wild)Fire by Laura Pritchett are available to pick up at both Gunnison Co. library location. Inside each free book is a description of all the amazing FREE events available for you to attend during the 2024 Mountain Word Festival.

About the book:

Laura’s book is a story about a community. When a wildfire bears down on a mountain community, residents are forced to gather for safety–resulting in a tangle of love and lust that pulls people from their isolation, friendships that form across political divides, and a new hope for rethinking the ways humans inhabit the burning planet. Playing with (Wild)fire is a literary landscape that is an experiment in form: an astrology report; a grant application-turned-love-story; a phone call from Mother Earth; an obituary for a wildfire; a burned mountain’s conversation with a lone woman and an injured bear. Every story captures how fire affects the human psyche and life, and how destruction can lead to renewal.