A major literary figure tells "a searching tale of loss, recovery, and deja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and expose" (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family--civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis--shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Emmett Till took a train from his home in Chicago to visit family in Money, Mississippi; a few weeks later he returned home dead. Murdered because he was a colored boy and had, allegedly, whistled at a white woman. His mother, Mamie Till, chose to display her son's...
A major literary figure tells "a searching tale of loss, recovery, and deja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and expose" (...
The new story collection from John Edgar Wideman - acclaimed author of Philadelphia Fire and Brothers and Keepers, and winner of the 2017 Prix Femina Étranger - exploring subjects from the imagined to the historical and personal
The new story collection from John Edgar Wideman - acclaimed author of Philadelphia Fire and Brothers and Keepers, and winner of the 2017 Prix Femina ...
The lyrical masterpiece from John Edgar Wideman, one of the standout black American writers of the modern age and winner of the 2017 Prix Femina Etranger
The lyrical masterpiece from John Edgar Wideman, one of the standout black American writers of the modern age and winner of the 2017 Prix Femina Etran...
