“Fire in My Bones” by Ollie Marshall Rico is now available for purchase: Your voice matters —SPEAK!
“Fire in My Bones,” a book by Ollie Marshall Rico, has been published in partnership with Author Reputation Press. This inspiring novel tells us that the time will come when we will be able to release the cries of our hearts. In time, that whisper of courage to be truthful, to speak, and to cry the truth will be heard.
Cries have been muffled, and tears have been imprisoned. The fire that would be the voice of the silent cries. Is the fire to be searched? Or is it to be made? The fire that gives us the guts and strength to speak up. In the middle of everything in life—grief, joy, suffering, victory, and so on—the voice of pursuing perseverance and hope is certainly a miracle.
Ollie Marshall-Rico’s lines in “Fire in My Bones” give voice to her sorrow amid a world of division and pain. She writes with a demanding cry to cope with difficulties that are often placed upon us beyond our control, based on her insights and personal experiences.
Ollie Marshall-Rico is a Springfield, Arkansas native who grew up in the Union Chapel community as the seventh of sixteen children. She and her spouse now reside in Orange, New Jersey. She previously taught for the Newark Public School System. She expresses herself through poems.
She earned a BA in Sociology from Northridge State University in Northridge, California; a secondary certification in Social Studies from Montclair State University through the State of New Jersey; and a certification in Special Education from Kean College University through the State of New Jersey from preschool through the 12th grade. On the east coast, a VISTA Volunteer, a domestic branch of the Peace Corps, working with other VISTA Volunteers to help create the first Rent Control Bill in the City of Newark. She’s a lifetime member of the NAACP, a community activist, and an active member of her church.
Furthermore, the author published other books aside from this one, such as “The ABC Character Builder”, “Commander in Chief (The 44th President)”, “Searching-Genealogy-Connecting-Phase 1”, “Sprouts of the Spirit”, and “Scattered Changes”.
The author researched and reaffirmed her lineage in “Fire in My Bones,” sharing her deep and abiding quiet faith in our Creator, God, while also touching on the concept of racial unity as strength and exhorting us to learn from our mistakes while respecting our ancestors, elders, and history. “Revere the ancestors,” she says as she researches Kwanzaa’s cultural traditions.
Her people’s ability to endure beyond the hardships of slavery in a distant land is the root of her survival, she realizes. She is standing on the shoulders of giants.
Despite the many efforts to the advancement of our society, she has endured hate, injustice, and racial imbalance of prejudice throughout her life, which she expresses through her creative expression. “Fire in My Bones” is a cry to be heard, a cry to be understood, a cry for relief from the pain of the injustice that has been inflicted upon Ollie Marshall-own Rico’s soul.
The book is now available for purchase via our bookstore https://authorreputationpress.com/products/fire-in-my-bones.