How to Set a Fire and Why

How to Set a Fire and Why A Novel

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Publisher's Synopsis

A teenage girl. A shattering loss. An obsession with a secret arson club. This is the story of a girl who has nothing and will burn anything.

Lucia's father is dead, her mother is in a mental hospital, and she's living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. And now she's been kicked out of school-again. Making her way through the world with only a book, a zippo lighter, a pocketful of stolen licorice, a biting wit, and the striking intel-ligence that she tries to hide, Lucia spends her days riding the bus to visit her mother and following the only rule that makes any sense to her: Don't do things you aren't proud of. But when she discovers that her new school has a secret Arson Club, she's willing to do anything to be a part of it, and her life is sud-denly lit up. As Lucia's fascination with the Arson Club grows, her story becomes one of misguided friendship and, ultimately, destruction.

Book information

ISBN: 9781101870570
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Pantheon Books
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: 304
Weight: -1g