Summary of Charles M. Blow's Fire Shut Up in My Bones

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#1 I had a difficult time understanding the concept of death as a child, as my family attended many funerals. I thought the dead looked good, as they were sleeping in big suitcases.

#2 My family lived in the rural north Louisiana town of Gibsland, near the border with Texas. It was a place where the line between heroes and villains was not so clearly drawn.

#3 I had a lot of memories of playing with my brothers in that house. We had pillow fights and tickle fights in our room, and we would watch Soul Train together.

#4 I first learned about love from Big Mama and Jed, who were my first family. The house was small, with just five rooms, and it was close to Highway 71. It was between a forest on one side and a cow pasture on the other.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669393412

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Insights on Charles M. Blow's Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had a difficult time understanding the concept of death as a child, as my family attended many funerals. I thought the dead looked good, as they were sleeping in big suitcases.

#2

My family lived in the rural north Louisiana town of Gibsland, near the border with Texas. It was a place where the line between heroes and villains was not so clearly drawn.

#3

I had a lot of memories of playing with my brothers in that house. We had pillow fights and tickle fights in our room, and we would watch Soul Train together.

#4

I first learned about love from Big Mama and Jed, who were my first family. The house was small, with just five rooms, and it was close to Highway 71. It was between a forest on one side and a cow pasture on the other.

#5

Jed made Big Mama move to the middle of nowhere and bathe outside. He drew his power from a different source than hollowness. It came from the knowing and accepting and loving of self that made the knowing and accepting and loving of everything else possible.

#6

In 1974, my brother Jed built the house that he would die in. It was a modest ranch-style house with a covered carport. Jed painted it buttercup yellow with brown shutters, and my grandmother decorated the yard by stabbing synthetic flowers into the soil among real