Praise for The World is On Fire Winner of the 2016 Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction Finalist for the 2016 Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize "TheThe World is On Fire masterfully questions, rummages, and connects the obscure with the universal, uncovering truths about faith and resurrection we had been waiting for, whether we knew it or not."
Brevity Magazine "Sharp observations ... Read moreof the leftover and ongoing apocalypses of American culture ... an idiosyncratic and impressive book."
Ander Monson, the author of Letter to a Future Lover "This is a whale of a book, bringing us the wonderfullest things from the ends of the earth."
Amy Leach, the author of Things That Are "The literary equivalent of long exhalations after holding one's breath, a passionate outpouring of description and revelation."
Publishers Weekly "Tevis rivals Barbara Kingsolver, Rebecca Solnit, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and Terry Tempest Williams."
Foreword Reviews "Evocative essays on faith, life and wonder. In these lyrical, finely crafted pieces, like poets Gerard Manley Hopkins and Mary Oliver, Tevis sees the natural world imbued with spiritual power."
Kirkus "Tevis's keen eye takes readers from the steel of scissor blades and the cold waters of Alaska to the fire of atomic bomb testing grounds as seen through a View-Master."
Library Journal "Fear and wonder, sorrow and resignation. This sounds relentless, too heavy to bear. But Tevis is such a beautiful stylist that I'm willing to follow her anywhere, to feel anything she wants me to. This book is gorgeous, its sentences rhythmic and rambling and reflective."
Bookslut "Carefully observed and highly crafted essays
some of the most surprising and original I've read."
Los Angeles Review of Books Praise for the Author: "Tevis's writing, a showcase for her interests in religion, memoir, natural study and women's history, is precise and unique."
Publishers Weekly "Tevis illuminates the dim corners of memory as she draws attention to the fragile connection between human beings and the mysteries that surround us."
Diane Wilson "An innovative young writer deeply immersed in literary tradition."
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