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Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir

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A memoir of complicated relationships and family trauma, this is a heartbreaking and hopeful story about the impact of motherhood and untreated mental illness, and one daughter’s journey to make sense of it.

Winner of the 2025 Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction

A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mother: a woman who lived her life in pursuit of the divine, and who started two big fires, decades apart.


Ten years before Nina was born, her mother lit herself on fire in a dual suicide attempt. During her recovery in the burn-unit, a nurse initiated her into Transcendental Meditation. From that day on, her mother's pain became intertwined ...