A Fire Story #[nn]

Brian Fies brings his deeply personal graphic memoir to life in this 2019 volume from Harry N. Abrams, recounting the experience of devastating wildfire loss. The cover sets a quietly haunting tone — a house silhouetted against a fiery orange sky, tall pine trees reduced to dark shapes, and two small figures standing together in the foreground, a single lit window offering the only cool light amid the blaze. Raw and human in equal measure, this is the kind of story that reminds us why the graphic memoir format can reach places other media simply can't.