The story of family and how lives intersect over time, Signal Fires is a quiet portrait of neighbors who lived near a 500-year-old oak tree during a large chunk of their lives. How those in the two families live and people chose to intersect or not to, choose to acknowledge weakness or tragedy- or do not- as they move through lives stages and across the country are central to this novel.
Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro, (List Price: $28, Knopf, 9780593534724, October 2022)
Reviewed by Kimberly Daniels, The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, North Carolina