Even as they blur distinctions between fiction and memoir, the daring, challenging stories in What We Lost in the Fire stretch and expand notions of queer lives-and of queer fiction writing. The eclectic geographies of these stories-Hawai'i, Rome, a Texas prison, southwestern Ohio, New York, Florida, and still other, hybrid landscapes-are reflected in the rich, idiomatic voices of Ricketts' characters. San Francisco, in particular, is as much...