A review by dannymason_1
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman

3.0

I struggled with this. It has a lot of what I usually love, a strong narrative voice, an ambitious style, an intermingling of the personal, political and philosophical. However, it just didn't fully click, even when I found myself loving a lot of individual sentences and passages. I think the issue is that it's so fragmented that I couldn't really latch onto anything, even as someone who usually enjoys fragmented narratives.