<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Evidence of Fire</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> takes us on an unflinching journey through the narrator's experiences as an addict using drugs alcohol and sex to cope with her depression and anxiety. She is uncompromising in her discussion of abuse suicide the bleak landscape of living and aging in poverty and illness in America and the ameliorating effect of substances and behaviors that take her if only for a moment out of the darkness of that existence. She does not shy away from the consequences of that behavior though-this book takes place in the space between self-awareness and denial and refuses to look away from either.</span></p>