New from Michael Robert Drane
THEIR WONTED FIRES
In an age of possibility and invention, the world was what they made it.
Their Wonted Fires takes readers underneath the luster of the Gilded Age’s lavish facade to its struggling rural communities and exploited steel towns. Follow the Moran family as they face the trials of an industrializing society, and are forced to question whether they have the strength to persevere.
Praise for Their Wonted Fires:
With Their Wonted Fires, Michael Robert Drane uses his pen to empathetically sharpen the time-worn edges of Gilded Age Pittsburgh. Stories of growth and loss unfold within the lives of wealthy industrialists, and of those whose backbreaking labor generated their wealth. As fortunes grow, losses mount, and lives bend to sometimes break from twists of fate, Drane gently carries his reader from working-class farms and humble hearths to the charged boardrooms of powerful magnates bargaining ruthlessly for the future of an industry. Their Wonted Fires is a moving story of struggle that meaningfully examines whether money and power or love and family are the real riches of life.
-Virginia Montanez, author of Nothing. Everything. and a historian and columnist focused on Pittsburgh news and history.
