Fire Shut Up in My Bones

By Charles Blow. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2014. 240p.

About

Blow’s coming of age memoir is his personal account of family, homophobia, racism, and poverty growing up in the Deep South.

Details

ISBN:

978-0544228047

Awards Won

Title Year
Over the Rainbow Project Book List

The Over the Rainbow Book List (OTR) is a committee of the Rainbow Round Table (RRT) of the American Library Association (ALA). OTR creates an annual, annotated bibliography of books for general adult readers aged 18 years or older that have commendable literary quality and significant, authentic lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (LGBTQIA+) content. 

2015 - Selection(s)