Charles Blow: Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Alice Walker (as in the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple) calls Blow's new book "a luminous memoir that digs deep into territory I've longed to read about." We think she knows of what she speaks. Journalist Blow mines the rich territory of his youth to write a fierce story of abuse, poverty, self-doubt and redemption; you don't want to miss this searing reading.