{"product_id":"drowning-in-fire-volume-48-9780816521685","title":"Drowning in Fire, Volume 48","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJosh Henneha has always been a traveler, \u003c\/b\u003e drowning in dreams, burning with desires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a young boy growing up within the Muskogee Creek Nation in rural Oklahoma, Josh experiences a yearning for something he cannot tame. Quiet and skinny and shy, he feels out of place, at once inflamed and ashamed by his attraction to other boys. Driven by a need to understand himself and his history, Josh struggles to reconcile the conflicting voices he hears--from the messages of sin and scorn of the non-Indian Christian churches his parents attend in order to assimilate, to the powerful stories of his older Creek relatives, which have been the center of his upbringing, memory, and ongoing experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his fevered and passionate dreams, Josh catches a glimpse of something that makes the Muskogee Creek world come alive. Lifted by his great-aunt Lucille's tales of her own wild girlhood, Josh learns to fly back through time, to relive his people's history, and uncover a hidden legacy of triumphs and betrayals, ceremonies and secrets he can forge into a new sense of himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen as a man, Josh rediscovers the boyhood friend who first stirred his desires, he realizes a transcendent love that helps take him even deeper into the Creek world he has explored all along in his imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterweaving past and present, history and story, explicit realism and dreamlike visions, Craig Womack's \u003ci\u003eDrowning in Fire\u003c\/i\u003e explores a young man's journey to understand his cultural and sexual identity within a framework drawn from the community of his origins. A groundbreaking and provocative coming-of-age story, \u003ci\u003eDrowning in Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is a vividly realized novel by an impressive literary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816521685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.11w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2001 pg. 111\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePW Notes and Reprints\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/22\/2001 pg. 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLambda Book Report\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2002 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2002 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniv PR Books for Public Libry\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2002 pg. 71 - Strongly Recommended\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Craig S. Womack","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644691869852,"sku":"9780816521685","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3a1c0ad6-ec07-48e4-9b9e-eebd6ec5ac6c.jpg?v=1603859232","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/drowning-in-fire-volume-48-9780816521685","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}