Fire Shut Up in My Bones

A powerfully redemptive memoir that both fits the tradition of African-American storytelling from the South, and gives it an indelible new slant. AUTHOR: Charles M. Blow has been a columnist at the New York Times since 2008 and has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, Fox New, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and HBO. He lives in Brooklyn with his three children. REVIEWS: "'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' is a luminous memoir that digs deep into territory I've longed to read about in black men's writing: into the horror of being submerged in a vast drowning swirl of racial, spiritual and sexual complexity, only to somehow find one's self afloat, though gasping for breath, and then, at long last and at great cost, swimming. I believe both ancestors and Descendents will cheer." ? Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Color Purple'. "When you finish Charles Blow's mesmerizing memoir, you will cry. And you will better understand poverty, the south, racism, sex, fear, rage and love. Then you will miss being in his authorial grip. Then you will start reading this stunning book again." ? Lawrence ODonnell Host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell