This was a quiet book that slowly took hold of me. It is primarily a character study of the people whose neighborhood and lives are dramatically changed by the reflexive toss of a lit match. The fire-starter, Henry, a USPS delivery person, deeply and sincerely attempts to expiate his secular sin,...
He’d distrusted her for months, but this was something new. The story she’d related and the plainness of the telling, all the facts lining up with terrible precision—she was either being honest and entrusting him with everything, or lying so atrociously he couldn’t bear to think it. She was Gener...