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After the Fire by Judith A Jance is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is After the Fire about?

That fire can cleanse as well as destroy is no mystery to J. A. Jance. Before she found fame as a best-selling mystery author, Judith Jance wrestled with the personal anguish of being married to an alcoholic. For years she composed poetry in secret and kept it locked away. Finally it was published as After the Fire in 1984, the year before her debut novel. After the Fire chronicled the death of a relationship as Jance's marriage to her first husband gradually collapsed under the weight of his addictionaided and abetted by her own unwitting denial and co-dependencewhile she struggled to find herself. "I will not be the price of your redemption," she wrote then. "I will not pay my life to ransom yours." Now this deeply personal work is available in a new annotated edition. In it, Jance offers unblinking insights into where she was and what was happening when each of these searing poems was writtenremaking After the Fire as more than a collection of poetry. Now it is a portrait of addiction and the insidious ways in which it destroys relationships. As Jance now observes while reflecting on these poems, "I could remember that spring morning sitting at the Formica table in my Phoenix ki

Who reads After the Fire?

Author

Judith A Jance

Publisher

Tucson: University of Arizona Libraries: Distributed by the University of Arizona Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781931583046

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.01 / 5 (199 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13