In May 2016, a Canadian oil town was overrun by wildfire, turning entire neighbourhoods into firebombs and driving 90,000 people from their homes. Told through the story of this apocalyptic conflagration, Fire Weather is a gripping exploration of our relationship with fire, and an urgent examination of humanity’s future in an ever-hotter, more flammable world.
John Vaillant is a bestselling author and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, National Geographic, and the Guardian, among others. His first book, The Golden Spruce, won the Canadian Governor General’s Award for non-fiction. His second, The Tiger, was an international bestseller and was translated into sixteen languages, and The Jaguar’s Children, his first work of fiction, was a finalist for the Canadian Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His most recent book, Fire Weather, won the Baillie Gifford Prize and Canada’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize, and was a finalist the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.