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Philadelphia Fire, A Novel
by John Edgar Wideman
- LITERATURE
- 2005
- PAPER
- 199 PAGES
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With passion, brutal honesty and lyricism, Wideman spins the story of an African-American writer, Cudjoe, who returns to his native West Philadelphia to write a book on the 1985 police bombing of a rowhouse inhabited by members of a black organization. The blast killed six adults and five children and more than 60 other houses were destroyed by the flames, but Cudjoe searches for the one mysterious survivor, a young boy known as Simba Muntu.
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