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

Documents the trial of a man charged with dozens of counts of arson in a rural Virginia county, sharing insight into his struggles with addiction, his relationship with his accomplice girlfriend and the impact of the fires on their community.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hesse, Monica (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Arson > Virginia > Accomack County.
Accomack County (Va.) > Economic conditions.
Accomack County (Va.) > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural.
TRUE CRIME.
TRUE CRIME / General.
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"