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Fire shut up in my bones: a memoir

By Charles M , Blow

Book information

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Year
2015
ISBN
9780544228047, 9780544570115, 9780544302587, 0544228049, 0544570111
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1091451 bytes)
Edition
First Mariner books edition
Pages
228 pages ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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A New York Times Notable Book | Lambda Literary Award Winner | Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award "Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age." — Washington Blade "[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting." — New York Times Universally praised on its publication, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is a pioneering journalist's indelible coming-of-age tale. Charles M. Blow's mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slavery's legacy felt close. When her philandering husband finally pushed her over the edge, she fired a pistol at his fleeing back, missing every shot, thanks to "love that blurred her vision and bent the barrel." Charles was the baby of the family, fiercely attached to his "do-right" mother. Until one day that divided his life into Before and...

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