Fire's Edge

In Fire's Edge, a powerful, sensitive first novel about hate crime in the Pacific Northwest, journalist Alan Siporin sets the overlapping stories of a Jewish school teacher, an African-American reporter, a communal lesbian household and a trio of violent skinheads against the backdrop of the high-profile trial of a white supremacist. A freelance reporter for NPR, Siporin will be doing interviews on NPR and its affiliates as part of his national and regional author tour.