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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Burn

Burn

Austin, Stephanie

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798902431787
Publisher: Cowboy Jamboree Press
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

BURN is filled with beautiful losers covered in scars of their own making. And yet it also finds hope in the dark places, both real and in the mind. A stunning, assured, and risky debut.

-Tod Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author

The Mountains. 1999. Shannon Story returns to college from winter break, happy because she has an escape plan for her mother who is trapped in an abusive marriage. Instead of salvation, Shannon finds herself facing extreme fire conditions: her car breaks down on the side of the road, her would-be boyfriend abandons her, and the unusually dry winter in the mountains shows no sign of letting up. When she meets the hotshot, a wildland firefighter, on the night of her 21st birthday, she thinks maybe this is the guy who will save her. To no one's surprise (except maybe Shannon's) he sends her into the mother of all downward spirals putting at risk her remaining relationships: Daniel, her best friend and emotional boyfriend; Rebecca, her sex-crazed roommate; Adrian, her struggling artist friend and Daniel's roommate; and finally, her mother, whose refusal to recognize her own pathology will not just sink herself, but her daughter. After the last cigarette goes out and the party blows up, Shannon is forced to make a choice: the life her mother (un/knowingly) conditioned her to accept or the life she can live on her own terms but only if she faces a reckoning of the painful codependent cycle she's been living inside.

BURN is gritty, pretty and real, highly entertaining-like a 'beach read, ' only if the beach were a good dive bar, BURN is a novel to sink into and enjoy every moment.

-Monica Drake, author of Clown Girl

Clear your calendar: once you pick up BURN, you won't put it down until the final, aching word. In Shannon, Stephanie Austin has created an antiheroine for the ages, a young woman equally bent on self-destruction and surviving any way she can. I saw parts of myself in her I didn't want to see, and I couldn't look away.

-Jennifer Wortman, author of This. This. This. Is.

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