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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Blow, Charles M., 1970-     Subjects     Blow, Charles M., 1970-     Journalists, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Journalists -- United States -- Biography.     Television journalists, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Television journalists -- United States -- Biography.     Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Biography.     Hazing -- Biography.     Coming of age -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Blow, Charles M., 1970-       by title:      Fire shut up in my b...       by call number:      070.92 B657f     Search the Web     Blow, Charles M., 1970-     Blow, Charles M., 1970-     Journalists, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Journalists -- United States -- Biography.     Television journalists, Black -- United States -- Biography.     Television journalists -- United States -- Biography.     Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Biography.     Hazing -- Biography.     Coming of age -- Biography.       MARC Display

Fire shut up in my bones : a memoir / Charles M. Blow. by Blow, Charles M., 1970- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. Call #: 070.92 B657f Subjects Blow, Charles M., 1970-   Journalists, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Journalists -- United States -- Biography.   Television journalists, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Television journalists -- United States -- Biography.   Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Biography.   Hazing -- Biography.   Coming of age -- Biography. ISBN:  9780544228047 (hc.) Description:  228 p. ; 24 cm. Contents:  Prologue -- The house with no steps -- Thanksgiving -- Chester -- The punk next door -- Look-away Jesus -- Change -- Another boy's baby -- The brothers -- Hell week -- The champagne-colored girl -- Lie detector -- The just-in-case-gun. Summary:  New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time Black American Louisiana town where he grew up -- 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 Black American storytelling from the South, and gives it an indelible new slant. Charles M. Blow is a New York Times columnist and CNN commentator. He lives in Brooklyn. Genre:  Autobiographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 070.92 B657f Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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