American fire
Subtitle: love, arson, and life in a vanishing land
By: Monica Hesse
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation; Liveright
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781631490514
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; Arson
Description: "The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the rural Virginia coast with cameras and camouflage. Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. The arsonist seemed to target abandoned buildings, but local police were stretched too thin to surveil them all. Accomack was desolate--there were hundreds of abandoned buildings. And by the dozen they were burning. The culprit, and the path that led to these crimes, is a story of twenty-first century America"--Provided by publisher.