Dance While the Fire Burns: Family, Identity, and Dreams
by Deborah Ann Lucas
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Pub Date May 09 2025 | Archive Date Sep 24 2025
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Description
Throughout the upheaval of her nomadic childhood, Deborah dreams of horses in her backyard and longs for a place to call home. Finishing high school in Illinois, she moves to LA with her parents and meets up with her older brother Chuck, who tells her he’s gay. When their parents split, everyone scatters. Deborah wanders for years, and when victimized by unscrupulous men, she turns to Chuck for help. Moving through a myriad of places, jobs, and relationships across the country, she lands back in LA, meets Greg, marries him, and moves to his Indiana hometown.
His loving support helps her find the confidence to pursue a college degree and become an artist. But at the onset of a promising career, she walks away from all she has achieved to repay an unspoken debt to her brother, diverting her quest for home. Deborah perseveres through a rollercoaster of learning and losing to keep the life she’s built with horses and art. Her curiosity, humor, and fierce belief in dreams sustain her until she finds the place where she belongs.
For those of you in search of your own dreams, reading Dance While the Fire Burns will help you believe you can achieve them—as long as you don’t give up.
Advance Praise
"Goodreads: Catherine L. says, “Deborah Ann Lucas’ memoir is a captivating tapestry woven from threads of resilience, creativity, and healing that invites readers to embark on their own transformative journeys.”
Goodreads: Sandra Postma says, “when an author manages to pull you in so completely and you feel you stand with her in the story of her family and her life, you know you’ve got something special in your hands.”
Goodreads: Jennifer Landau says, “Deborah Ann Lucas’s decades-spanning memoir Dance While the Fire Burns is a bold and beautiful tale of an extraordinary life. Lucas’s love for her family, her art, and the many animals that come into her life, is palpable and richly told.”
Goodreads: Victoria Lees says, “Dance While the Fire Burns is a lesson in determination and believing in oneself.”
BookLife Review: As Lucas builds a secure self-identity, readers will be moved by her touching story of found family and the unwavering love between siblings.
Kirkus Review: “…her relationship with her brother is honest and raw, and though readers know the outcome from the beginning, the ending packs a punch.
“A heartfelt, often engaging exploration of messy family dynamics, grief, and healing.”
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9798998629013 |
| PRICE | $9.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 357 |
