Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/4634 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fire Shut Up in My Bones Author: Charles M. Blow Narrator: Leon Nixon Format: mp3 Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins Release date: 11-19-24 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 4 ratings Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: 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 segregated Louisiana town, where slavery's legacy felt close. When her philandering husband finally pushed her over the edge, she fired a pistol at his fleeing back, missing every shot, thanks to “love that blurred her vision and bent the barrel.” Charles was the baby of the family, fiercely attached to his “do-right” mother. Until one day that divided his life into Before and After—the day an older cousin took advantage of the young boy.