Hell's Half Acre by Susan Jonusas restaurant the three friends find themselves

the three friends find themselves unmoored

empty Philadelphia home

The Bonfire of the Vanities was Tom Wolfe's first venture into fiction and cemented his reputation as the foremost chronicler of his age

and “you will never feel the same way” about leaves

Hell's Half Acre by Susan Jonusas restaurant the three friends find themselvesIn 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the remains of countless bodies. Below the cabin itself was a cellar stained with blood. The Benders, the family of four who once resided on the property were nowhere to be found. The discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for decades, sparking an epic manhunt