Download or read book There Was A Fire Here written by Risa Nye and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Less than a month before her 40th birthday, a devastating firestorm destroys Risa Nye’s home and neighborhood in Oakland, California. Already mourning the perceived loss of her youth, she now must face the loss of all tangible reminders of who she was before. There Was a Fire Here is the story of how Nye adjusts to the turning point that will forever mark the “before and after” in her life—and a chronicle of her attempts to honor the lost symbols of her past even as she struggles to create a new home for her family.