Brothers and Keepers

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Imprint: Vintage (Aug 29, 1995)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780679756941

Description of Brothers and Keepers


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 America’s racial contract.
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