| Description |
1 online resource (304 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
| Summary |
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 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 African-American storytelling from the South, and gives it an indelible new slant. |
| System Details |
System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Blow, Charles M., 1970-
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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African American journalists -- Biography.
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Blow, Charles M., 1970- Fire shut up in my bones. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 9780544228047 (DLC)2014006729 |
| ISBN |
9780544302587 (e-pub) |
| Standard No. |
9780544302587 |
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