"Written by Liam Taliesin, Red River Métis and a proud citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation, "Lithium Fire" is a gritty, frequently poetic, literary novel with a crime twist. This novel chronicles the journey of eight characters struggling to deal with their grief, guilt, and mortality in the aftermath of a tragic fire that took three lives. The blaze was deliberately set and an uneasy peace between artists and hoods that frequent the same seedy bar unravels with tragic consequences. At the Royal Albert, when the mix is right and the music tight, the bar shakes with frenetic fusion as students, hipsters, artists, hoods, and undercover cops all ride the same funky beat to the end of the night. The tough guys give the bar its bite, the bohemians lend it color, each tolerating the idiosyncratic nature of the other-until now. Now. these two factions are on a collision course from which none will emerge unscathed. Winnipeg is a city of ghosts where many places in the novel have been torn down, closed down, or burned down and many of the people are gone."--