num_pages: 256
description: Isolated from the outside world, Percy Turner spends her summer at a fire tower deep in the Canadian wilderness, where she spends her time keeping watch for fires and struggles to come to terms with her lifelong passion for her best friend, Marlea, who has a male lover, and with her troubled family past. Original.
language: English
title: Burning Ground
titlecomplete: Burning Ground
genres: Fiction, Canada, Womens, Literary Fiction, Feminism, Literature, LGBT
ratings_count: 96
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best First Book in Caribbean and Canada
publisher: Plume