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Worth Burning Inspirational & Personal Growth " (Los Angeles Review ofA searing portrait of survival, Worth Burning traces a boy's journey from a turbulent Southern childhood marked by parental abuse, death, and hidden queerness through the AIDS crisis, a marriage of convenience, and finally, towards a rugged self acceptance haunted by the past. Worth Burning crackles with the heat of a burn barrel. With a novelist's attention to character and narrative trajectory, Mickie Kennedy glides through four decades beginning