These stories offer spellbinding reflections on abolitionists and artists, fathers and sons, the bonds of family and the pull of memory.
Emotionally precise and intellectually stimulating, this is Wideman at his best..
John Edgar Wideman\'s fiction challenges the boundaries of the form.
The author considers the deaths of his brother, uncle, mother and niece.
A man sits on the edge of Williamsburg Bridge, contemplating suicide.
A re-imagined conversation takes place between white anti-slavery crusader John Brown and black abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
These stories offer spellbinding reflections on abolitionists and artists, fathers and sons, the bonds of family and the pull of memory