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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
by Monica Hesse
In 2012, a 5-month arson spree torched 80 buildings on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The culprits—a sad-sack loser & his party girl paramour—turn out to be an oddly hypnotic trailerpark Bonnie & Clyde. Mostly solid true-crimer by a Washington Post reporter. Procedural passages on “passive adsorption elution” & “gas chromatography” slow the pace. And it fizzles when painting the fires as a metaphor for an economically scorched south. But the bizarre story of the firebug lovers has tension to burn.