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No Ashes in the Fire
- Narrated by: Darnell L Moore
- Length: 6 hrs
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Publisher's Summary
Lambda Literary Award (Gay Memoir/Biography) winner, 2019
From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.
When Darnell Moore was 14, 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.
What the critics say
"A heart-wrenching memoir of triumphing over...racial violence." (The Root)
"[A] stirring and beautifully rendered memoir.... Part autobiographical, part social commentary, and entirely eye-opening, No Ashes in the Fire is a timely book about race, sexuality, class, and equality that everyone in America should be reading." (Bustle)
"This coming-of-age memoir cum meditation is the introspective story of a man in search of self... A cultural and political history that examines and defies the stereotypes of black life in America.. [Darnell L. Moore's] story is an inspiration." (Booklist)
What listeners say about No Ashes in the Fire
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- T. Anthony
- 2019-07-10
A Must Read!
Issues of social justice sensitively explored. Beautiful, poetic, and important. No one will walk away without learning something from Darnell.
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