Philadelphia Fire

Name: Philadelphia Fire
Author: John Edgar Wideman

by John Edgar Wideman

Novel set in Philadelphia exploring urban violence and community trauma amid racial conflict

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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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