Elizabeth Kern

Fire Angels (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This "heartbreakingly engrossing" novel explores the true events surrounding the Our Lady of the Angels school fire in 1958 Chicago (Foreword Reviews). Three weeks before Christmas, on December 1, 1958, one of the most horrific fires in American history broke out at Our Lady of the Angels elementary school in Chicago, claiming the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns. Fire Angels is a fictional account of that fire. It's a story of arson; of bravery by parents, nuns, firefighters, and medical professionals; of a falsely accused janitor; of a cover-up within the Catholic Church; of a judge who, in having to determine the juvenile arsonist's fate, is torn between loyalty to his church and justice; of a tight-knit community changed forever; and of two survivors who fall in love. Fire itself is also a central character in this story, a cunning observer that comes to life whenever a flame is lit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781613736326
• Artikelnr.: 45990602

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Kern, author ofWanting to Be Jackie Kennedy, andMercy Goodhue: A Puritan Woman's Story of Betrayal, Witchcraft and Madness, is a former manager of corporate communications at Apple, a native of Chicago, and a graduate of Stanford University where she developed her passion for writing historical fiction. She lives in Petaluma, California.