alan siporin fires edge

Fire's Edge
a novel by
Alan Siporin

Kirkus Review	Library Journal	Publisher's Weekly	Whitney Scott, BookList
Library Journal While attending a trial related to the racially motivated murder of one of her students, teacher Hannah Turnfeld, a former firefighter, attracts the unwanted attention of several bigoted Oregonian skinheads, who respond to most problems with blind hatred and calculated violence. The rabble- rousers, splinter white-supremacist groups, rapists, vandals, and just "ordinary" racists who seem to abound here all affect the lives of good folk like Hannah's brother and family, who suffer at their hands but survive in the end. This is intense prose, excitable characters and action, and in-your-face subject matter by a journalist who has covered hate crime.