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<p><strong>***THE <em>MIRAMICHI READER</em>’S 2020 MOST PROMISING AUTHOR AWARD***</strong></p> <p><strong>*BMO WINTERSET AWARD LONGLIST*</strong></p> <p><br> </p> <p>In <em>Approaching Fire</em>, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor. <br> </p> <p><br> </p> <p>Weaving through multiple genres and traditions, <em>Approaching Fire </em>fashions a textual documentary of rescue and insight, and a glowing contemplation of the ways in which loss can generate unbridled renewal.</p>