PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction ぺん/ふぉーくなーしょう(ふぃくしょんぶもん)
Edition 4 (1984)
FictionNovelAmerican Literature Award
Winners
1 peopleA cycle of stories set in Pittsburgh’s Black community of Homewood. Through disappearance and return, the book explores urban and communal memory, personal identity, and the links between social history and private lives.
Community memory gradually illuminates individual lives.
city and communityfamily and memoryAfrican American experienceloss and renewal