Things you save from the fire

About the novel "I told my story, put it into words… the story's narration changed the story for me, it did not change what happened, for that is impossible to change, but it changed the way I responded to what happened." Kassy is a woman born for emergencies, she is a first-class firefighter, skilled in dealing with others' tragedies, saving people's lives is easy for her, but saving her own life is completely different… Her first experience with love left scars deep inside her, so she vowed never to love again, but she realized, as she moved forward in her life, that one must forgive if they want to love. She learned "that we choose to love," despite all the ways people have abandoned us, left us, and broken our hearts; that we know how harsh life can be, and that choosing to love anyway is not weakness, but courage. She also learned that "all those hardships, insults, and disappointments in life do not make the bliss of this moment less important, but make it more important." Yes, the world is full of indescribable brutality, but the response is not to stop feeling hope, happiness, or love, but to savor every fleeting, precious second of those feelings when they come, and to love madly whenever we can. Kathryn Centner's novel comes from her heart, not her pen, touching the core of everyone who reads it. A novel that helps us reorder our priorities in the right way, and deserves in every way to be among the things we save from the flames. Author: Kathryn Centner Publisher: The Arab Cultural Center Category: Short stories and novels Year of publication: 2022 Number of pages: 447