Author: Charles M. Blow

  • Fire Shut Up in My Bones

    Fire Shut Up in My Bones

    Charles M. Blow’s mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their town in segregated Louisiana, where slavery’s legacy felt close. When her philandering husband finally pushed her over the edge, she fired a pistol at his fleeing back,…

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