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Through the best-selling author of While I Was Gone and The Senator's Better half, an excellent new novel about a family and a community tested when an arsonist commences setting fire to the homes of the summertime people in a little New England town. Troubled by the feeling that she belongs nowhere after employed in East Africa for 15 years, Frankie Rowley has come home - home to the tiny New Hampshire town of Pomeroy and the farmhouse where her family has always summered. On her first night again, a residence up the street burns to the bottom. Is it a major accident, or arson? On the weeks that follow, as Frankie comes to discover her father's poor failing and her mother's desperation, another house burns up, and then another, always the homes of summer months people. These frightening situations, and the deep social mistake lines that wide open in the city as a result, are found and reported on by Bud Jacobs, a ex - political journalist, who have bought the local paper and migrated to Pomeroy so that they can find a kind of home himself. As this powerful booklet unfolds, as Bud and Frankie commence an unexpected, passionate affair, arson upends a trusting small community where folks have nothing you've seen prior bothered to lock their entry doors; and Frankie and Bud bring wholly different perspectives to the questions of who truly possesses the land, who belongs in the city, and how, or even whether, newcomers can make a genuine home there.
