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I had high hopes for this one. The book begins with a man getting out of prison after serving 20 years for burning down the Emily Dickens house (accidentally killing two people inside). Of course, this rips his current family apart. When he gets out he goes to school, gets married, has kids, etc. But then other famous authors homes start burning up! Is he doing it? How can he clear his name? It's a GREAT plot and story thread.
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The Chicago Tribune calls An Arsonist's Guide "a Matryoshka doll of a book ... a novel, nested within a memoir, nested within a how-to-guide." Accidental arsonist Sam's misadventures allow for a lot of literary in-jokes and parodies, but they also accommodate serious musings about the powerful role stories and storytelling play in our lives. The Dallas Morning News opines that Brock Clarke's attempt to pull off "whimsy, satire and black comedy" all in the same novel results in a muddle, and othe
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