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The Arson People by Katie Jean Shinkle

kylereadsbooks's review

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challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

This book contains mentions of “fire”
Be warned

meganmilks's review

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5.0

The Arson People is a gripping book: the prose rips forward like the gasoline-fed fires the protagonist produces. The mean, fucked-up, disaffected world that Shinkle has created here, and the narrator's violent resistance to it, made me think of Lynda Barry’s Cruddy. I love too, how deeply the narrator cares about this place and these people, despite her best efforts to burn the shit out of everything.
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