Fireweed

“Haddad’s debut novel shows off her mastery of prose and physical description, infusing each page with believable realism. [ … ] The novel is altogether an exploration of intersectionality, showing how the existence of disenfranchisement in one group doesn’t negate the disenfranchisement of another, though it still calls for nuance and compassion. Fireweed leaves readers with the overall sentiment that there is danger in doing things the way they have always been done.”
-Rachel S. Hunt, Associated Press

“Unflinching and quietly devastating, this novel explores the stories we tell to justify injustice - and the ones we finally start listening to when it’s too late.”
-Jordan Snowden, The Seattle Times

“Lauren Haddad’s debut, Fireweed, [is] a spiky and unnerving thriller depicting the most uncomfortable relationship between white and Indigenous people since Nathan Fielder’s The Curse.”
-Sam Franzini, The Brooklyn Rail

“A full-bodied awakening-to-injustice novel.”
-Kirkus Reviews

“Haddad investigates what happens when a community turns all of their attention to a missing White woman but ignores when an Indigenous woman goes missing. Her taut writing and pace magnificently give readers a claustrophobic experience that is rarely felt on the page.”
-Adam Vitcavage, Debutiful

”[Fireweed is] a complex exploration of injustice, performativity, and intersectionality.”
-Literary Hub

Lauren Haddad is a writer, herbalist, and mother. Born in metro-Detroit, she currently lives in a small village in Switzerland with her family. Her writing has appeared in Medicine Tree, and her first novel, Fireweed, was born out of years of relationship to that place, owing itself to the people there.

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