Nothing Left to Burn
"Unadorned but vivid, Varner's coming-of-age story unravels family secrets about firefighting and arson. It's painful and poignant . . . [Varner] reminds us that few lives, even those we think we know best, are easily understood."--USA Today(Time Out Chicago)"At its core, the book is about the way we spend half our lives trying to understand the people who brought us into this world . . . [Varner's] writing is reporterly with lovely lyrical flourishes." --Time Out Chicago