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Brothers and Keepers

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By John Edgar Wideman
Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group - (Vintage)
Brothers and Keepers
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As John Wideman was building a reputation as one of our finest writers, his brother Robby went from the streets of Philadelphia to a life sentence in prison for murder. As it weighs their shared bonds of blood, tenderness, and guilt, Brothers and Keepers yields an unsparing analysis of Americas racial contract.

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100526 words100,526 words
256 pages256 pages
Lexile 850LLexile 850L

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Book ISBN:

9780679756941

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