One of Refinery29's top Reads for October

One of Plougshares "Most invaluable Books for the top of 2016"

The lives of 4 childrens are capsized through a surprising college taking pictures and its aftermath during this robust debut novel, a coming-of-age tale with the haunting strength of Station Eleven and the bittersweet poignancy of Everything I by no means instructed You.

As contributors of the yearbook committee, Nick, Zola, Matt, and Christina are desirous to trap the entire memorable moments in their junior yr at Lewis and Clark excessive School—the performs and soccer video games, dances and fund-drives, lecturers and sessions which are the epicenter in their teenage lives. yet how do you rfile a awful tragedy—a lethal institution capturing by way of a classmate?

Struggling to understand this cataclysmic event—and propelled through a feeling of accountability to town, their mom and dad, and their school—these 4 "lucky" survivors vow to honor the thoughts of these misplaced, and in addition, the stories forgotten within the shadow of violence. however the taking pictures is just the 1st inexplicable trauma to rock their small suburban St. Louis city. a sequence of mysterious apartment fires have hit the households of the sufferers one after the other, pushing the grieving city to the edge.

Nick, the son of the lead detective investigating the occasions, plunges into the case on his personal, scouring the web to discover what may cause a fireplace without glaring place to begin. As their pal pulls farther away, Matt and Christina conflict to save lots of broken relationships, whereas Zola fights to maintain herself together.

A tale of grief, group, and family members, of the hunt for knowing and normalcy within the wake of devastating loss, Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down explores profound questions on resiliency, reminiscence, and restoration that brilliantly remove darkness from the inner most recesses of the human heart.