Blaze Island
with Catherine Bush
Hosted by Rhonda Douglas
Podcast Fiction
Bush’s prose is a lightning storm in the dark of climate crisis — gothic, forceful, and beautifully intimate. Here is the majesty and awe of unleashed nature and we are caught in the grip. Swept away. This novel is sublime.
Author and poet, Rhonda Douglas, hosts a conversation with novelist Catherine Bush whose latest, Blaze Island was a Globe and Mail Best Book, a Writers' Trust of Canada Best Book and was praised as “One of the 20 books you need to read this winter” by Maclean’s Magazine.
The time is now or an alternate near now, the world close to our own. A Category Five hurricane sweeps up the eastern seaboard of North America, leaving devastation in its wake, its outer wings brushing over tiny Blaze Island. During this wild night, a stranger washes up on the doorstep of the isolated house where Milan Wells lives with his daughter Miranda.
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