Fire in My Bones is a fictional account of facts based on the Sacco and Vanzetti case, two Italian immigrants accused---many to this day believe wrongfully---of a crime they did not commit. Sacco, a shoemaker, and Vanzetti, a fish peddler, were self-proclaimed anarchists. More specifically, they were workers’ – rights advocates during the time of the Great War and soon after when the Red Scare was sweeping the country and Attorney General Mitchell Palmer was making raids on and deporting susp...