His Name in FireHis Name in Fire is told from three points of view: Molly, a circus worker employed to engage bored and disaffected local youth to put on a circus performance; Matthew, a teenager and son of TJ, the local blues man, who is in love with Emma, the snakeman's daughter; and Emma, new to the town, a loner trying to come to terms with her mothers rejection. Each of these characters confronts a major crisis in their lives and is trying to make sense of it.