Author

Publication

2001 - Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN, Minnesota

Language

English

Word Count

52,000 words, Guess

Page Count

208 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing2074519
  • Goodreads2119547

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3557.U93 B57 2001
  • LCCPS3557.U93B57 2001

Description

"Rosa Guy's novel follows Wade Williams, a brilliant young black man who wakes up in a mental hospital and is told he has assaulted his sister. Throughout Guy's engrossing story, Wade retraces his steps to identify the circumstances that brought him to commit this unthinkable act, and reveals the rich complexity of mid-twentieth-century Harlem and its mothers, sons, and daughters, whose aspirations prevail and perish within both white and black America."--Jacket.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction

Series Statement

  • The Coffee House Press black arts movement series

Other Editions

  • Bird at my windowCoffee House Press2001

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