American fire love, arson, and life in a vanishing land

"The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the rural Virgini...

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Main Author: Hesse, Monica (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Charge that line!"
  • "The South starts here"
  • "Orange in the sky"
  • Charlie
  • Monomanie incendiaire
  • Tonya
  • "Like a ghost"
  • "Tell us what you know about that"
  • Charlie and Tonya
  • Schrödinger's evidence
  • The eastern shore arsonist hunters
  • "I've seen enough ass to know"
  • "Like hell was coming up through the ground"
  • Tonya and Charlie
  • "They're not hunters at all"
  • "I didn't light them all"
  • "Someday they'll go down together"
  • "Everybody has a reason for why they do things in life"
  • "I can't tell you something I don't know"
  • "Midnight without makeup"
  • The broken things
  • "Time to wake up"
  • Burned
  • "We'd done it before"
  • "They came out of everywhere"
  • "Moral turpitude"
  • What happened next
  • "It's over"