The world of Jeffery Renard Allen’s stunning short-story collection is a place like no other. A recognizable city, certainly, but one in which a man might sprout wings or copper pennies might fall from the skies onto your head. Yet these are no...
A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America during the Civil War era.
At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable...
"Will put Allen in the company of writers such as James Joyce, August Wilson, and Ralph Ellison." — The Philadelphia Inquirer.
When it was first published fifteen years ago, Jeffery Renard Allen's debut novel, Rails Under My Back, earned its...