Synopses & Reviews
This collection of interrelated stories spans the history of Homewood, a Pittsburgh community founded by a runaway slave. With stunning lyricism, Wideman sings of "dead children in garbage cans, of gospel and basketball, of lost gods and dead fathers" (John Leonard). It is a celebration of people who, in the face of crisis, uphold one another--with grace, courage, and dignity.
Review
"A novelist of high seriousness and dept . . . enormous care and intelligence." The New York Times
About the Author
JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, Philadelphia Fire, and most recently the story collection God's Gym. He is the recipient of two PEN/ Faulkner Awards and has been nominated for the National Book Award. He teaches at Brown University.
Table of Contents
Damballah -- Daddy garbage -- Lizabeth: The caterpillar story -- Hazel -- The Chinaman -- The watermelon story -- The songs of Reba Love Jackson -- Across the wide Missouri -- Rashad -- Tommy -- Solitary -- The beginning of homewood.