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Fire shut up in my bones : a memoir
Title:
Fire shut up in my bones : a memoir
Author:
Blow, Charles M., 1970- , author.
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Physical Description:
228 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
"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"--Amazon.com.
Language:
English
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.
Personal Subject:
ISBN:
9780544228047
Format :
Book