The World in Flames
A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2018
Summary
A boyhood memoir of growing up with blind, African American parents in a segregationist doomsday cult.A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world-for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restriction…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807036082 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0807036080 |
| Author: | Jerald Walker |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press |
| Imprint: | Beacon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 187g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 138mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“The key to the memoir’s cumulative power is Walker’s narrative command; the rite of passage is rockier than most, making the redemption well-earned.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Jerald Walker has a remarkable story to tell, and he tells it with a wealth of grace and intelligence at his command.”
—Vivian Gornick
About The Author
Jerald Walker
Jerald Walker is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. His writing has appeared in publications such as the Harvard Review, Mother Jones, the Iowa Review; the Missouri Review; the Oxford American; the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Creative Nonfiction, as well as four times in Best American Essays. He is the author of Street Shadows- A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, Redemption, which won the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Award for Nonfiction, and How to Make a Slave and Other Essayswhich is a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction.
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