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Rodney Williams

Rodney Williams is a writer, chef, innkeeper, and POPS The Club board member who lives in Idyllwild, California. He’s currently finishing up a memoir, tentatively titled Outrunning Fire, which this piece is excerpted and adapted from. 

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Memoir

My Brother Burned Our House Down—and Now I Understand Why

Story by Rodney Williams | May 26, 2016

Years of drug addiction, mental illness and incarceration sent my sibling over the edge. A decade later, when I spent a night in jail myself, I finally saw what lit his fire.

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