Reviews for Philadelphia fire

The average rating for Philadelphia fire based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-12-07 00:00:00 Yana Makarova I think that this is an unrecognized masterpiece. Basic, and yes I agree thin, plot line is the main character Cudjoe comes back to Philadelphia from self-imposed exile to look for a boy who survived a bombing of a row house in West Philly. The house was bombed by city officials to eradicate an Afrocentric group called MOVE. The bombing was a real historical event and I have to admit that's what first drew me to the book. But rather than being disappointed by the book's divergence into other subplots I was fascinated. Wideman is a master of so many voices - the young, the old, female, the oppressed, the coddled. I was reading an article about the genius of Lin Manuel Miranda and his mastery of so many types of language, so much of the stew that is any large city in this country. Wideman is of the same ilk. This is a book that deserves multiple reads. I might even send it to Miranda :-) but then again he's probably already read it.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-08-30 00:00:00 Jacob Kingsly Is this event at all alive in the Political Imagination of US citizens? Police Terrorism from 1985 ; the bombing of an African=American Community in West Philly-- [this is how the boss tells the story, ie Frontline ; so you might suspect how much deeper it goes....] The more things Don't Change, the more they stay the same...