Fire

Winner of the 2018 Independent Publisher's Gold Medal for Visionary Fiction! Pearl Swinton is on a walkabout for a year across Southeast Asia with her boyfriend Finn. In search of her life's purpose Pearl's path has taken her from the Midwest (Earth) to Japan (Air) and now on a journey through Asia. Who is the self behind cultural conditioning? Who is she when no one is telling her who to be? What is her calling? The couple ends up in London and Pearl realizes that before she can understand this illusory “purpose” she must journey down into the self and heal. In the end she is faced with a decision that could reduce to ashes the life she has built and destroy all that she holds dear.