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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
by Monica Hesse
This book shouldn't have taken me as long to finish as it did, but I got it out of the library as a book on CD (yes), only to find that the 5th disc was unplayable: That meant I had to request a new set, wait for it to come in, pick it up.... It was all very time-consuming, and in the end, it turned out to be quicker just to get a print copy of the book, so I ended up listening to the first 170 pages and reading the last 75. I preferred the written version in this case, and was able to finish what remained of the book in just about a day.
The story itself is an interesting one, but the ending was sooo unsatisfying. After all that build up around who set the fires, and why they set the fires, and how they were going to get caught, and what was going to happen to them, and how the trial would go down.... then everything just came to a screeching halt and was over. Done. The end. It seemed like such an anti-climatic ending, where so little was really learned about Tonya or her motivations.... and while I suppose you can't really fault the book for that-- because it is taken right from life, after all, and that's probably what it felt like in real life, to those involved -- I am curious now to see if anything else has been learned/written/released about the couple in the 5 years since the book was written.
The story itself is an interesting one, but the ending was sooo unsatisfying. After all that build up around who set the fires, and why they set the fires, and how they were going to get caught, and what was going to happen to them, and how the trial would go down.... then everything just came to a screeching halt and was over. Done. The end. It seemed like such an anti-climatic ending, where so little was really learned about Tonya or her motivations.... and while I suppose you can't really fault the book for that-- because it is taken right from life, after all, and that's probably what it felt like in real life, to those involved -- I am curious now to see if anything else has been learned/written/released about the couple in the 5 years since the book was written.