Fire shut up in my bones a memoir

"New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-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"--Ama...

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Main Author: Blow, Charles M., 1970- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.