A searing memoir on how childhood spills into parenthood from the critically acclaimed author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. When Nick Flynn was seven years old, his mother set fire to their house. The event loomed large in his imagination for years, but it’s only after having a child of his own that he understands why. He returns with his young daughter to the landscape of his youth, reflecting on how his feral childhood has him still in its reins, and forms his memories into lyrical bedtime stories populated by the both sinister and wounded Mister Mann. With the spare lyricism and dark irony of his classic, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Flynn excavates the terrain of his traumatic upbringing and his mother’s suicide. This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire unravels the story of the fire that Flynn had to escape, and the ways in which, as an adult, he has carried that fire with him until it threatens to burn down his own house. Here Nick confronts his failings with fierce candor, even as they threaten to tear his family apart. His marriage in crisis, Flynn seeks answers from his therapist, who tells him he has “the ethics of a drowning man.” This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire takes us on the journey of a man struggling to hold himself together in prose that is raw and moving, sharp-edged and wry. Alternating literary analysis and philosophy with intimate memoir, Flynn probes his deepest ethical dilemmas.

A glimpse into the entangled mind, of a stroke survivor, described through his eyes, in an attempt to help the care givers, survivors and families, better understand what to expect in the stressful days ahead, after a stroke or brain injury. The Author reveals his inner feeling as he describes the affects left by the stroke and how his life changed after surrendering to God. The Author shares with the readers, how his mind was functioning after the stroke and the reasons behind his actions. How he handled depression, anxiety, fatigue, concentration, and feeling worthless. This book was written in the hopes, that care givers, survivors and families would understand what is going through the survivor's mind after a stroke. The long days ahead and the new life journey that awaits. With God in the driver's seat, miracles will happen when you least expect them. The author prays that God will bless you as much as he has blessed him through writing this book.