TY - SER
KW - Muslims
KW - Black Americans
KW - Protestants
AU - John Edgar Wideman
AB - Twelve interwoven stories that trace the author’s ancestors from the Civil War to the 1960s. <em>The New York Times</em> writes, “In these winding, lyrical tales—told in the voices of different narrators—we meet a diverse cast; their lineage can be traced back to Sybela Owens, a slave, who, upon learning that his father intended to sell Sybela, fled to Homewood in the 1840s with his slave mistress and their children.”
BT - Homewood trilogy, 1/3
C1 - 1840s-1960s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Homewood; Homewood Branch of Carnegie Public Library; Homewood AME Zion Church; Point Breeze; East Liberty; North Side; Downtown; Kaufmann’s department store
C4 - Literary; Black; Slum; Psychological; Historical
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Short Stories
N2 - Twelve interwoven stories that trace the author’s ancestors from the Civil War to the 1960s. <em>The New York Times</em> writes, “In these winding, lyrical tales—told in the voices of different narrators—we meet a diverse cast; their lineage can be traced back to Sybela Owens, a slave, who, upon learning that his father intended to sell Sybela, fled to Homewood in the 1840s with his slave mistress and their children.”
PB - Avon Books
PP - New York
PY - 1981
RN - John Edgar Wideman (1941- ), raised in Pittsburgh's Homewood and Shadyside neighborhoods, graduated from Liberty Elementary and Peabody High School. A star basketball player, he was all-Ivy League at the University of Pennsylvania before winning a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. At the Iowa Writers' Workshop he earned a MFA. Wideman is the winner of many literary awards and a professor at Brown University.
EP - 205 p.
T2 - Homewood trilogy, 1/3
TI - Damballah
ER -