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balletbookworm 's review for:
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
by Monica Hesse
TFW your audiobook is so fascinating that instead of pausing it to read a different book in the bath you keep listening and watching the timer tick down on the Libby app.
A very compelling book about the perfect storm of personality, situation, family history, relationship troubles, and geographic location to produce an unprecedented arson spree. But also a reminder that for many communities their fire services are staffed by volunteers and their numbers are shrinking - those were the most harrowing sections of the book, when the narrative was with the firefighters at the scene and you worried that this fire might be one where someone was injured (spoiler: they were all fine, but 70+ fires really took a toll).
Second book started, first book finished for 24in28 Readathon January 2018.
A very compelling book about the perfect storm of personality, situation, family history, relationship troubles, and geographic location to produce an unprecedented arson spree. But also a reminder that for many communities their fire services are staffed by volunteers and their numbers are shrinking - those were the most harrowing sections of the book, when the narrative was with the firefighters at the scene and you worried that this fire might be one where someone was injured (spoiler: they were all fine, but 70+ fires really took a toll).
Second book started, first book finished for 24in28 Readathon January 2018.