Description
Fannie Flagg meets Stephen King in this love story of small-town life where Americana and the American nightmare converge. A fire is burning below ground in Belle Haven, in abandoned mine shafts, occasionally coming up for air and to swallow a house or car or pet. Rachel Hearn has lived here all of her life, except for one interlude away at college -- a time she would rather forget. Her new friend, the stranger everyone in town calls Just Joe, has recently found his way here, having traded in his Jaguar for a motor home on the way. He is fleeing to a place he should be fleeing from, yet he is strangely attracted to this town, with its cast of curious, independent characters -- insiders who would be outsiders anywhere else. Those Who Favor Fire is more than a novel that turns on a universal theme -- love of one's own home plus fear of change -- it is a testament to Lauren Wolk's superb skills as a writer that she has made this fascinating story both believable and very entertaining.
