Fire Shut Up in My Bones

By: Charles M. Blow

Biography & Autobiography

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...