Burning and Dodging

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>At nearly sixty Tina Gabler is done living for everyone else.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>After decades spent supporting the ambitions of family and colleagues the would-be artist decides it's finally time to take her own creative life seriously. When she accepts a position as research assistant to legendary television news anchor Peter Bright at his remote home in the Thousand Islands it seems like the perfect opportunity for reinvention.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Peter is racing to finish a controversial book exposing the hidden truth behind some of history's most famous photographs-images that shaped public perception but may have been staged manipulated or misunderstood.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>As Tina digs into the stories behind the photographs her research leads her far beyond the archive. She begins searching for the unidentified child in a famous Roman Vishniac image-and for Peter's estranged adopted daughter taken from her Cree family during Canada's infamous Sixties Scoop.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>But in trying to rewrite the endings of other people's stories Tina is forced to confront her own past-especially the complicated legacy of the father whose ambitions once overshadowed her own.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Burning and Dodging</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is a witty thoughtful and deeply human novel about reinvention truth in storytelling and the courage it takes to claim a life that is finally your own.</span></p>