A?New York Times?Notable Book | Lambda Literary Award Winner | Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award

??Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age.?? ? Washington Blade

??[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting.?? ??New York Times

Universally praised on its publication???Fire Shut Up in My Bones?is a pioneering journalist??s indelible coming-of-age tale.?

Charles M. Blow??s mother was a fiercely driven woman