Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America is a narrative nonfiction book by Don Katz.

[1] The book covers the lives of the Gordons, an American family with many familiar experiences and struggles, including a move from the city to the suburbs, and four rebellious children.

[2] Home Fires tells the story of the Gordon family – real people, names unchanged - over nearly five decades, from the end of World War II to the early 1990s.

The book chronicles the turbulent postwar era, illuminating the interplay between private life and profound cultural changes.

Juxtaposing day-to-day family life with landmark public events, Home Fires is a revealing portrait of the second half of the 20th century in America Members of the family profiled include siblings composer Ricky Ian Gordon and writer Susan Lydon.