· Now Crews has written a memoir, “Burn Down the Ground” (Villard), about her unusual upbringing. After working as a banker and a personal assistant to a . “Kambri Crews’ remarkable memoir of her turbulent upbringing, BURN DOWN THE GROUND, will amaze, amuse and–most importantly—finally get you to stop whining about your own childhood.” — Chris Regan, five time Emmy award-winning comedy writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Talkshow with Spike Feresten, author of Mass Historia and co-author of America (The Book). Burn Down the Ground is a brilliant portrait of living in two worlds—one hearing, the other deaf; one under the laid-back Texas sun, the other within the energetic pulse of New York City; one mired in violence, the other rife with possibility—and heralds the arrival of a captivating new voice. From the Hardcover edition/5().
Kambri Crews reads an adapted excerpt from her memoir "Burn Down the Ground" during a show at Otto's Shrunken Head. To Kambri, he was Daniel Boone, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ben Franklin, and Elvis Presley all rolled into one. But if Kambri's dad was Superman, then the hearing world was his kryptonite. The isolation that accompanied his deafness unlocked a fierce temper, a rage that a teenage Kambri witnessed when he attacked her mother, and that culminated. Burn Down the Ground A Memoir. Kambri Crews. • 53 Ratings; Kambri Crews explores her complicated bond with her father—which begins with adoration, moves to fear, and finally arrives at understanding—as she tries to forge a new connection between them while he lives behind bars.
Now Crews has written a memoir, “Burn Down the Ground” (Villard), about her unusual upbringing. After working as a banker and a personal assistant to a lawyer, Crews, 40, now runs her own p.r. In the book Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir, Kambri Crews details her unconventional childhood with deaf parents in rural Texas while relating it to her present life. Her father is currently serving a twenty-year sentence in a maximum-security prison. In spite of what he did, Crews sees the human side of her father and maintains contact with him. “Kambri Crews’ remarkable memoir of her turbulent upbringing, BURN DOWN THE GROUND, will amaze, amuse and–most importantly—finally get you to stop whining about your own childhood.” — Chris Regan, five time Emmy award-winning comedy writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Talkshow with Spike Feresten, author of Mass Historia and co-author of America (The Book).
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