Fire Exit

Name: Fire Exit
ISBN: 9781953534132

by Morgan Talty

Joyce Carol · 2025 · Shortlist

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Tin House BooksJune 11, 2024Literary FictionISBN 9781953534132

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Joyce Carol Oates Prize	2025	Shortlist

About This Book

Morgan Talty's debut novel, set on the same Penobscot Nation reservation as his acclaimed story collection, follows a white man whose life is defined by a secret connection to his Native neighbor. Shortlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize.

About the Author

Morgan TaltyPenobscot (Penobscot Indian Nation, United States)

Morgan Talty (born 1991) is a Penobscot author and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maine, known for his debut story collection Night of the Living Rez (2022), which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize among others, and his novel Fire Exit (2024), a finalist for several awards including the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.Morgan Talty official site,