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Burning Summary & Study Guide Description
Burning Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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The events in Burning all take place on a single day in Los Angeles, the day of the great Bel Air fire. But before the actual fire is so much as ignited, Johnson begins using it as her central metaphor in a novel that satirizes California's child welfare system, the drug scene, and above all the lifestyles of people living in Southern California.
Maxine ("Max") Gartman finds that her...
This section contains 436 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |