Brothers and Keepers

Locations
Call Number: Black Studies 364.3 Wi
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Black Studies 364.3 Wi	4-week checkout	On Shelf

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman submitted by ccrose on July 30, 2019, 4:53pm I taught this memoir for a freshman English Comp class. Wideman came from Pittsburgh and had an amazing college education. He won prestigious awards and rose to the highest level of scholarly achievement. But his Brother goes toward an opposite life, killing a man during a robbery and stayed in jail 30 years. Wideman tells this painful situation. Being the only college educated person in an African American family makes for a big gap, hard to stay the person you used to be. I liked the way Wideman did not desert his brother. But the grief over the advantages he’s had baffled him.