Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers, Sons, Race and Society
John Edgar Wideman
This memoir is the story of an American family. Wrestling himself free from racial ideology, Wideman engages his family, past and present, in order to understand who he is today and to heal familial wounds.
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- 1995
- ISBN-13
- 9780330341431
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Fathers and sonsRace and identityFamily history
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1994)
Other awarded books from John Edgar Wideman
- Brothers and Keepers
- Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File
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