Fire Exit Teens25 From the fungi we see

From the fungi we see on supermarket shelves to fungi like penicillium that have shaped human history

Collins confronts these questions

to consider the profound meanings and promise of God's enduring covenant with humankind

The table is set

Fire Exit Teens25 From the fungi we seeShortlisted for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A lone white man lives beside the river on the edge of the Penobscot reservation in Maine. Charles spends his days doing odd jobs, looking after his depressive mother, and staring across the water to the house in which his half Native daughter Elizabeth has grown up, unaware of his existence, her paternity hidden to protect her tribal status. Yet the cracks in the foundations of Elizabeths