This Ain't No Normal Fire

By Gerry Stanek

Gerry Stanek's second volume of fiction brings you back to Plattsville in a series of vignettes that capture the humanity of this imagined coal town. This Ain't No Normal Fire is set in 1920s Western Pennsylvania. Plattsville's inhabitants live on the edge of survival, loss, and deception. Stanek's language is rich and poetic, and he leads the reader on a sometimes-harrowing journey: darkness and light, church and bar, and the fragile bones of men who work underground-characters who live in silent pain and attempt to navigate around and through it. There are union riots, the complicated dynamics of one family, and the internal battles of characters who are always in transition. The church and the mine hover over every thought and decision in Plattsville.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0915M63BF
• ISBN13: 9798577874452
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"