Sent for You Yesterday
Lucy and Carl struggle to prevent the extinction of the Black community of Homewood and to keep alive the musical heritage of the blues piano player, Albert Wilkes.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- ISBN-13
- 9780395877296
- Genre
- Topics
- Black community and heritageMusic and blues traditionStruggle against community decline
Awards
- PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionWonMajor(1984)
Other awarded books from John Edgar Wideman
- Philadelphia Fire (2018)1 win · 12 score
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