|
Product Description
From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.
When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely. It wasn't the last time he would face death.
Three decades later, Moore is an award-winning writer, a leading Black Lives Matter activist, and an advocate for justice and liberation. In No Ashes in the Fire, he shares the journey taken by that scared, bullied teenager who not only survived, but found his calling. Moore's transcendence over the myriad forces of repression that faced him is a testament to the grace and care of the people who loved him, and to his hometown, Camden, NJ, scarred and ignored but brimming with life. Moore reminds us that liberation is possible if we commit ourselves to fighting for it, and if we dream and create futures where those who survive on society's edges can thrive.
No Ashes in the Fire is a story of beauty and hope-and an honest reckoning with family, with place, and with what it means to be free.
Lambda Literary Award - Gay Memoir/Biography (Winner - 2019)
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year (2018)
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Heavy: An American Memoir
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
- How to Be an Antiracist
- Breathe: A Letter to My Sons
- How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
- Indecency
- Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
- Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
- I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
*If this is not the "No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Nov 2, 2024 06:52 +08.