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Unabridged.

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073143

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Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left rural Virginia reeling, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse drove down to Accomack County to cover the trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to sixty-seven counts of arson. But Charlie wasn't lighting fires alone: he had an accomplice, his girlfriend Tonya Bundick. Through her depiction of the dangerous shift that happened in their passionate relationship, Hesse brilliantly brings to life the once-thriving coastal community and its distressed inhabitants, who had already been decimated by a punishing economy before they were terrified by a string of fires they could not explain. Incorporating this drama into the long-overlooked history of arson in the United States, American Fire re-creates the anguished nights that this quiet county spent lit up in flames, mesmerizingly evoking a microcosm of rural America--a land half gutted before the fires even began.

Read by Tanya Eby.

Hard copy version record.

Arson -- Virginia -- Accomack County.

Accomack County (Va.) -- Economic conditions.

Accomack County (Va.) -- Social conditions.

Arson. (OCoLC)fst00815158

Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974

Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811

Virginia -- Accomack County. (OCoLC)fst01204485

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.

Audiobooks.

Downloadable audio books.

Eby, Tanya.

OverDrive, Inc.

Source record: Hesse, Monica. American fire. Unabridged. [Holland, Ohio] : Dreamscape Audio, 2017 9781520075846 (OCoLC)978286097

9781520075860 (electronic audio bk.)

1520075863 (electronic audio bk.)