We Burn Daylight
Available August 2024
“A magnificent portrait of how even as the rivets of our Republic are popping loose, plumes of beauty still rise from the soil upon which so much wrong continues to repeat. I read We Burn Daylight in a sitting, devoured it in a breath. It’s an amazement.” — Rick Bass
“Symphonic and suspenseful, We Burn Daylight reimagines events at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. In an epic act of empathy, Bret Anthony Johnston inhabits every point of view, from doomed devotees to perplexed law enforcement, and even manages to infuse the tragedy with moments of poignant, very human, humor.”
— Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse and March
