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An absolutely fascinating story, and Hesse does an excellent job in the telling of it. I was hooked from the first page to the last.
A true crime account of serial arsonists in an economically deprived county, once the richest in the nation, now pocked with hundreds of abandoned properties and populated by a people who feel abandoned by the American dream, left with menial, low paying jobs in the chicken factories which pollute the once vital and fertile countryside which now wastes away, fallow and uncultivated, much like the hopes and aspirations of its populace.
Compellingly told by Washington Post reporter and novelist, Mo ...more
Compellingly told by Washington Post reporter and novelist, Mo ...more
An interesting read. At the time of the fires, my office was in the county just north of Accomack, and we often traveled into Accomack on our route as large animal vets. It was a pretty terrifying time for the locals, and yes, we talked about it every day, sometimes all day long.
I felt like the author tried to be very respectful, and while admittedly I winced at some of the grammar displayed by the locals, that's truly how it works on the peninsula. I'm not embarrassed by them, but rather painf ...more
I felt like the author tried to be very respectful, and while admittedly I winced at some of the grammar displayed by the locals, that's truly how it works on the peninsula. I'm not embarrassed by them, but rather painf ...more
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