02735cam a2200349 4500 234925013 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780544302587 0544302583 B00HK3F4W4 Amazon 0a93a6a5-2e2a-4aff-a0cf-cb536728de54 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1578650 OverDrive (Product ID) 1578650 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Blow, Charles M. Fire Shut Up in My Bones [Libby]. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2178kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. African American Nonfiction. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>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</b></p> <p><i>New York Times</i> columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana hamlet 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.</p> <p>Blow's attachment to his mother — a fiercely driven women 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>A powerfully redemptive memoir that both fits the tradition of African-American storytelling from the South, and gives it an indelible new slant.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-06 20:32:58. http://nm.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=0a93a6a5-2e2a-4aff-a0cf-cb536728de54 https://samples.overdrive.com/fire-shut-up?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/fire-shut-up?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/fire-shut-up?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)