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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
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Overview
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by the American author Charles M. Blow was published in 2014. The book is a nonfiction memoir of his childhood and early adulthood in the American South. Blow is unflinchingly honest in the details of his own abuse and how he carried that abuse with him for years. Blow is an op-ed columnist for the New York Times and an anchor for the Black News Channel. Fire Shut Up in My Bones was named one of the best books of the year by Publisher’s Weekly, Shelf Awareness, Buzzfeed, Bookpage, and The Root.
Summary
Fire Shut Up in My Bones opens with an enraged Charles M. Blow. He is a college student speeding home with a loaded gun, intent on killing his cousin Chester for sexually abusing him when he was a boy. Blow then flashes back to his childhood growing up poor in Gibsland, Louisiana. The youngest of five brothers. he is surrounded by a large, extended family: his brothers Nathan, William, Robert, and James; his grandmother Big Mama; her several ex-husbands as well as Jeb, her current husband and the only male adult who lavishes unconditional love on young Charles; his mother Unlock all 46 pages of this Study Guide Plus, gain access to 8,900+ more expert-written Study Guides. Including features:
