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Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers, Sons, Race and Society

A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society

by John Edgar Wideman

197 pages · 1995

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With resonant artistry and unflagging directness, Wideman examines the tragedy of race and the gulf it cleaves between black fathers and black sons. He does so chiefly through the lens of his own relations with his remote father, producing a memoir that belongs alongside the classics of Richard Wright and Malcolm X.

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