Philadelphia Fire - John Edgar Wideman

Category: Historical Fiction, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Black History Pennsylvania United States

Written by John Edgar Wideman
Read by Landon Woodson
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

In 1985, police bombed a West Philadelphia row house owned by the Afrocentric cult known as Move, killing 11 people and starting a fire that destroyed 60 other houses. At the heart of Philadelphia Fire is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past and who becomes obsessed with the search for a lone survivor of the event: a young boy seen running from the flames.

Award-winning author John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to shocking life in this seminal novel. Philadelphia Fire is a masterful, culturally significant work that takes on a major historical event and takes us on a brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America.

8 hrs and 23 mins
April 11, 2023