Publication
Mariner Books (2015), 240 pages
Collections
Awards
Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2015)
PEN/Open Book (Longlist — 2015)
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Nominee — Non-Fiction — 2015)
Bisexual Book Award (Finalist — Non-fiction — 2014)
Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (Nonfiction — 2014)
The A.V. Club best books (2014)
ALA Over the Rainbow Book List (Selection — 2015)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Adults (Selection — Nonfiction — 2014)
Content and Summary Info
Bisexual Content: Charles M. Blow (cisgender man) identifies as bisexual.
Intersecting Marginalized Identities: Charles M. Blow is black.
Publisher's Summary: New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana town where he grew up - a place where slavery's legacy felt astonishingly close, reverberating in the elders' stories and in the near-constant wash of violence.