we all experienced together the fire of the future.

And to me, this felt like I had seen what our kids' lives are going to be like.

And not just in L.A., but all around the country and all around the world.

And it's not, I'm not here to say nobody's to blame.

There are many things that could have been different that perhaps could have changed the outcome of the fire, but the magnitude of the fire that we experienced, what it was,

what it felt like, we're not the only ones to experience this. Talk to people in Lahaina or in

paradise. It's not a secret that more and more of this kind of stuff is happening. And so talking

about it, writing about it, finding ways to sort of explore all of this stuff is so important. And that's what I hope

people get out of the book too.

Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host, Tracy

Thomas, and today we are joined by award-winning journalist and New York

Times bestselling author, Jacob Soberov, to discuss his new book, Firestorm, the Great Los Angeles

fires, and America's New Age of Disasters.

In this book, Jacob takes us to the front lines of the fires in Los Angeles in January

2025, offering a deeply personal

first-hand account of one of the most destructive fires in the city's history. We also talk about

why Jacob wanted to write this book so quickly, what he hopes readers will get out of it, and how he

balanced the politics and personal in his account. Our book club pick for January is girl-on-girl,

how pop culture

turned a generation of girls against themselves by Sophie Gilbert. We will be discussing the book

on Wednesday, January 28th with Christiana Mbacquay Medina. Everything we talk about on each episode

of the Stacks can be found in the link in the show notes. If you like this podcast, if you

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