Damballah, by John Edgar Wideman (used)

By "a writer who belongs in our permanent library" (The New-York Times), a powerful collection of interrelated stories spanning a century and set in Homewood, a community founded on Pittsburgh's east end by a runaway slave. With stunning lyricism John Edgar Wideman sings of "dead children in garbage cans, of caterpillars consumed like canapes, of a young girl pushed to paralysis down the steps of a stairwell, of the slaughterhouse and blindness and rape, of drugs and prison and Vietnam, of gospel and basketball, of lost gods and dead fathers" (John Leonard). Damballah is a celebration of a community of black people who, in the worst of times— in the face of crisis, of need and fear - uphold each other through grace under pressure, courage and dignity.

Condition: good, one bend in front cover