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1 online resource (228 pages) |
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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. |
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New York Times 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. 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. 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. |
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A respected journalist describes the abuse he suffered at the hands of a close relative, the effect this had on his formative years, and how he overcame the anger and self-doubt it left behind. |
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Blow, Charles M., 1970-
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Blow, Charles M., 1970- |
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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African American journalists -- Biography.
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African American journalists. |
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Journalists. |
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Biography & Autobiography. |
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Nonfiction. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Blow, Charles M., 1970- Fire shut up in my bones Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014 9780544228047 (DLC) 2014006729 (OCoLC)867078137 |
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9780544302587 : $14.99 |
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0544302583 : $14.99 |
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