![]() ![]() The author did a great job highlighting what happened before, during, and the aftermath of the fire. Its not often a book leaves me speechless and struggling to find words to say. I've rewritten this a few times, each time the words seeming to fall short of what I want to convey. ![]() ![]() This came to my attention when I saw it on the Goodreads Giveaways page and I was immediately drawn in. Like many, I did not know about this tragedy. Sidenote: My ARC copy is 320 pages, the actual book ends at 254 pages before the 'Notes' section I won this through Goodreads Giveaways, all my opinions are my own :) Tinderbox has many compelling scenes, but the author often seems uncertain about the significance of the fire. Fieseler unfortunately is far less successful in connecting the fire to the rise of gay liberation, which comes across as a force alien to the deeply closeted city, and the book’s thesis isn’t entirely clear. Across all three sections author Robert Fieseler sketches moving portraits of the fire’s victims, and he precisely charts the state of gay life in New Orleans during the seventies. The book is divided into three parts, with the first focusing on the events leading up to the fire as well as the fire itself, the second on the tragedy’s immediate aftermath, the third on community leaders’ attempt to memorialize the long-forgotten disaster decades after it happened. Written in the wake of the Pulse shooting, Tinderbox recounts the untold story of the fire at the Up Stairs Lounge, a senseless act of arson in 1973 that killed dozens of gay men and destroyed one of New Orleans’ central working-class gay bars. ![]()
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