About the Book: Told in luminous, reflective prose, The Last Fire Season is a powerful exploration of living amid the realities of climate change, chronic illness, and environmental collapse. Author Manjula Martin moves from urban life to the forests of Northern California, seeking healing and reconnection with the natural world—but instead finds herself in the path of increasingly destructive wildfires. As smoke fills her garden and sirens echo through the redwoods, Martin bears witness to a landscape in crisis, shaped by both ecological mismanagement and the worsening effects of global warming. Blending personal memoir, environmental writing, and eco-criticism, she traces her journey across Sonoma County, Santa Cruz, and the Sierra Nevada, uncovering the complex, often colonial history of land stewardship in the American West. Deeply moving and urgently relevant, this book interrogates our relationship with nature while reflecting on what it means to live in a wounded body on a burning planet.