Awards

• Short-listed for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 1994

Overview

In the tradition of his best-selling Brothers and Keepers, which was about himself and his imprisoned brother, John Edgar Wideman ( our most powerful and accomplished artist of the urban black world - Los Angeles Times Book Review) gives a searingly honest meditation on fathers, color, roots, time, and language . Certain to galvanize national attention, Fatheralong is a fiercely lyrical and revealing memoir that attempts all the while, among other things, to break out, displace, replace the paradigm of race [America's enduring malaise] . As Wideman puts it: Teach me who I might be, who you might be - without it . From affluent Amherst to blue-collar Pittsburgh to rural South Carolina, here is the story of an American family. Wresting himself free from the shackles of racial ideology, Wideman bravely engages not only the living but also the ghostlier demarcations of his family's past, the better to understand who he is today and to heal familial wounds. Fatheralong is a triumphant book of reckoning, an inspiring celebration of homecoming.

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An important, moving, large-spirited book....Wideman understands that the personal is the political, that somehow every single black life today is tied inextricably to the prison of race. --Washington Post Book World

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John Edgar Wideman is the award-winning author of more than 20 books, which have received two PEN/ Faulkner Awards and a National Book Award nomination. In addition to his authorial career, he is a professor at Brown University. His latest book, Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File, was published in 2016.

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