Firebird\"A beautifully written, hallucinatorily evocative memoir of growing up gay in baby boom America.\" Newsweek In his powerful autobiography, 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

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clear-eyed account of growing up in the 1970s without electricity or running water

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