Ebook {Epub PDF} How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball

 · JESSE BALL (–). Born in New York. The author of fourteen books, most recently the novel How to Set a Fire and Why. His works have been published to acclaim in many parts of the world and translated into more than a dozen www.doorway.ru  · JESSE BALL (–). Born in New York. The author of fourteen books, most recently the novel How to Set a Fire and Why. His works have been published to acclaim in many parts of the world and translated into more than a dozen languages/5(66).  · How to Set a Fire and Why, Ball’s new novel, adds to this world an unexpected dimension. It is set, for one, in the present day, in a recognizably American town. It is set, for one, in the Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.

How to Set a Fire and Why By Jesse Ball. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Save. Written in the style of a diary, Jesse Ball's How to Set a Fire and Why tells the story of Lucia Stanton, teenage anarchist and aspiring arsonist. She's halfway through high school, and was just transferred to a new district after a violent incident transpired between Lucia's pencil and a former classmate's neck. Lucia Stanton, Jesse Ball's precocious teenage narrator, lives in a converted garage with her ailing aunt. Her father is dead and her mother languishes in a fugue state at a mental hospital, both victims of some never-defined tragic event referred to only as "the thing." Too smart for her own good, Lucia has a delinquent streak.

How to Set a Fire and Why Quotes Showing of “We deceive ourselves into thinking life is long, but fire reminds us—it is a flickering. Life is a flickering—and then it is gone. So, we must make the most of it.”. ― Jesse Ball, How to Set a Fire and Why. 6 likes. Like. Written in the style of a diary, Jesse Ball’s How to Set a Fire and Why tells the story of Lucia Stanton, teenage anarchist and aspiring arsonist. She’s halfway through high school, and was just transferred to a new district after a violent incident transpired between Lucia’s pencil and a former classmate’s neck. Introducing the teenage narrator of Jesse Ball’s novel How to Set a Fire and Why: Lucia. Who can’t stay in high school, who lives in a converted garage with her broke and eccentric aunt, whose garden is boisterously weedy, whose mother is in a mental institution, whose father is dead, and who always tells the truth about what matters.