Fire Shut Up in My Bones

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Fire Shut Up in My Bones

A gorgeous, moving memoir of how one of America's most innovative and respected journalists found his voice by coming to terms with a painful past
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American LouisianaÂ town where he grew upÂ -- a place where slavery's legacy felt astonishingly close, reverberating in the elders' stories and in the near-constant wash of violence.
Blow's attachment to his mother -- a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, a job plucking poultry at a nearby factory, a soon-to-be-ex husband, and a love of newspapers and learning -- cannot protect him from secret abuse at the hands of an older cousin. It's damage that triggers years of anger and searing self-questioning.
Finally, Blow escapes to a nearby state university, where he joins a black fraternity after a passage of brutal hazing, and then enters a world of racial and sexual privilege that feels like everything he's ever needed and wanted, until he's called upon, himself, to become the one perpetuating the shocking abuse.
A powerfully redemptive memoir that both fits the tradition of African-American storytelling from the South, and gives it an indelible new slant.

Country	USA
Author	Charles M. Blow
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9780544302587
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Mariner Books
Manufacturer	Mariner Books
NumberOfPages	243
PublicationDate	2014-09-23
Publisher	Mariner Books
ReleaseDate	2014-09-23
Studio	Mariner Books

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