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DESCRIPTION:The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a maste
 rful work of historical fiction about an incendiary tragedy that shocked a
  young nation and tore apart a community in a single night—told from the
  perspectives of four people whose actions during the inferno changed the 
 course of history.\n\nRichmond\, Virginia 1811. It’s the height of the w
 inter social season. The General Assembly is in session\, and many of Virg
 inia’s gentleman planters\, along with their wives and children\, have m
 ade the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away t
 he darkest days of the year. At the city’s only theater\, the Charleston
 -based Placide &amp\; Green Company puts on two plays a night to meet the 
 demand of a populace that’s done looking for enlightenment in a church.\
 n\nOn the night after Christmas\, the theater is packed with more than six
  hundred holiday revelers. In the third-floor boxes\, sits newly widowed S
 ally Henry Campbell\, who is glad for any opportunity to relive the happy 
 times she shared with her husband. One floor away\, in the colored gallery
 \, Cecily Patterson doesn’t give a whit about the play but is grateful f
 or a four-hour reprieve from a life that has recently gone from bad to wor
 se. Backstage\, young stagehand Jack Gibson hopes that\, if he can impress
  the theater’s managers\, he’ll be offered a permanent job with the co
 mpany. And on the other side of town\, blacksmith Gilbert Hunt dreams of o
 ne day being able to bring his wife to the theater\, but he’ll have to b
 uy her freedom first.\n\nWhen the theater goes up in flames in the middle 
 of the performance\, Sally\, Cecily\, Jack\, and Gilbert make a series of 
 split-second decisions that will not only affect their own lives but those
  of countless others. And in the days following the fire\, as news of the 
 disaster spreads across the United States\, the paths of these four people
  will become forever intertwined.\n\nBased on the true story of Richmond
 ’s theater fire\, The House Is on Fire offers proof that sometimes\, in 
 the midst of great tragedy\, we are offered our most precious—and fleeti
 ng—chances at redemption
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SUMMARY:The House is on Fire
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