Burn down the Ground A Memoir

Name: Burn down the Ground A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780345516022

ISBN-10: 0345516028

ISBN-13: 9780345516022

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kambri Crews

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In this powerful, affecting, and unflinching memoir, a daughter looks back on her unconventional childhood with deaf parents in rural Texas while trying to reconcile her present life—in which her father is serving a twenty-year sentence in a maximum-security prison.As a child, Kambri Crews wished that she’d been born deaf so she, too, could fully belong to the tight-knit Deaf community that embraced her parents. Her beautiful mother was a saint who would swiftly correct anyone’s notion that deaf equaled dumb. Her handsome father, on the other hand, was more likely to be found hanging out with the sinners. Strong, gregarious, and hardworking, he managed to turn a wild plot of land into a…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/28/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Prologue


Boars Head, 1978-1986



Kingpin



Montgomery Hillbillies



You're the One That I Want (Oooh, Oooh, Oooh)



The Man of Steel



Half Baked



Showcase Showdown



Oklahoma!



Workin' for a Livin'



Hellcat Under a Hot Tin Roof



Repo Man


Grove Street, 1986-1987



The Miracle Worker


Weyland Drive, 1987-1989



Sixteen Candles



A Petty Officer and a Gentleman



Excessive Noise Disturbance



Come Sail Away


New York City, 2002-2008



Overboard



Witness for the Prosecution



Nothing but the Truth


Epilogue


Acknowledgments