Winner - Lambda Literary's Judith A.
Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers Finalist - Housatonic Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist - Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction A Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction (American Library Association) Best Book of the Year: Kirkus Reviews , Library Journal and Shelf Awareness An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox mesmerizingly reconstructs the 1973 fire that devastated New Orleans' subterranean gay community.