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In Firebird, Mark Doty tells the story of a ten-year-old in a top hat, cane, and red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's "Get Happy" by his alarmed mother at the bedroom door, exclaiming, "Son, you're a boy!"Firebird presents us with a heroic little boy who has quite enough worries without discovering that his dawning sexuality is the Wrong One.
A self-confessed "chubby smart bookish sissy with glasses and a Southern accent," Doty grew up on the move, the family following his father's engineering work across America-from Tennessee to Arizona, Florida to California. A lyrical, heartbreaking comedy of one family's dissolution through the corrosive powers of alcohol, sorrow, and thwarted desire, Firebird is also a wry evocation of childhood's pleasures and terrors, a comic tour of American suburban life, and a testament to the transformative power of art.
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American Poets, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Childhood and youth, Family, Family relationships, Gay/Lesbian, Nonfiction, Poets, American, Social life and customs, Families, Poets, biography, Tennessee, social life and customs, Manners and customs, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Stonewall Book AwardsPeople
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Firebird: A Memoir
October 1999, HarperCollins Publishers
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed edition
0060193743 9780060193744
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"In 1959, in Memphis, Tennessee, my sister, Sally, became a Rain Girl."
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