Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fourth novel. "A lot of remarkable things have happened in Sam's life. He spent ten years in prison for accidentally burning down poet Emily Dickinson's house - and unwittingly killing two people in the process. He emerged at age twenty-eight and set about creating a new lifealmost a new identityfor himself . . and then watched in almost silent awe as the vengeful past caught up with him, right at his own front door. As one by one, the homes of other famous New England writers are torched, Sam knows that he is most certainly not the guilty one. To prove his innocence, he sets out to uncover the identity of this literary-minded arsonist. What he discovers, and how he deals with the reality of his discoveries, is both hilariously funny and heartbreakingly sad.". ISBN: 978-1565125513.