Brothers and Keepers

Name: Brothers and Keepers
Author: John Edgar Wideman

by John Edgar Wideman

Memoir about the author's brother's imprisonment and family's struggle with justice

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John Edgar Wideman

John Edgar Wideman is one of the most formally innovative African American novelists, writing about Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood and about violence, history, and identity with experimental brilliance. He twice won the PEN/Faulkner Award.

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