Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories

Title: Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories Author: John Edgar Wideman ISBN: 9781982148959 Publisher: Scribner Published: 2022 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1462070 Publisher Description: *A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of the Year* From John Edgar Wideman, a modern "master of language" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a stunning story collection that spans a range of topics from Michael Jordan to Emmett Till, from childhood memories to the final day in a prison cell. In Look For Me and I'll Be Gone, his sixth collection of stories, John Edgar Wideman imbues with energy and life the concerns that have consistently infused his fiction and nonfiction. How does it feel to grow up in America, a nation that--despite knowing better, despite its own laws, despite experiencing for hundreds of years the deadly perils and heartbreak of racial division--encourages (sometimes unwitt