Levant author Morgan Talty Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer
Maine author Morgan Talty will release his debut novel in the summer of 2024.
Talty has received widespread acclaim for “Night of the Living Rez,” his first collection of short stories since the book was published last year. The 12 interconnected short stories are based on the Penobscot Indian reservation where he grew up.
He tweeted Thursday that his novel will be titled “Fire, Exit” and published by Tin House Books. It follows “a loner living on the Penobscot Indian Nation in Maine who watches his daughter grow up, from afar, concealing her true parentage and harboring long-held secrets of legacy, blood quantum, inheritance, and family,” according to Publishers Marketplace.
I am so excited!! Get ready for summer 2024! My debut novel, FIRE, EXIT is coming from @Tin_House! pic.twitter.com/NkbkNmPlr5
— Morgan Talty (@Morgan_J_Talty) June 8, 2023
“Night of the Living Rez” has received numerous awards and nominations. It won the John Leonard Prize for the best first book in any genre from the National Book Critics Circle, as well as the fiction category at the New England Book Awards and the Maine Literary Awards. It was also named a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction and The Story Prize, which honors American short story collections.
Talty lives in Levant, just outside of Bangor, and is a citizen of the Penobscot Nation. He is also an assistant professor of English at the University of Maine in Orono and is on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast creative writing master’s program.
“I am so excited!! Get ready for summer 2024!” Talty tweeted.
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