Nickolas Butlers debut novel, Shotgun Lovesongs, has become an international bestseller and won numerous accolades, including Frances Prix PageAmerica, previously won by Chad Harbachs The Art of Fielding. Now, in Beneath the Bonfire, he demonstrates his talent for portraying a place and its people with such love that youll find yourself falling for them, too Josh Weil, author of The Great Glass Sea.Young couples gather to participate in an annual chainsaw party, cutting down trees for firewood in anticipation of the winter. A group of men spend a weekend hunting for mushrooms in the wilderness where they grew up and where some still find themselves trapped. An aging environmentalist takes out his frustration and anger on a singular, unsuspecting target.
