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Everyday People

by Stewart O'Nan · 2001

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Stewart O'Nan's critically acclaimed novel Everyday People brings together the stories of the people of an African-American Pittsburgh neighborhood during one fateful week in the early fall of 1998. Vibrant, poignant, and brilliantly rendered, Everyday People is a lush, dramatic portrait that vividly captures the experience of the day-to-day struggle that is life in urban America. "A unique and tantalizing novel that celebrates the lives of everyday people in an extraordinary way." — Mike Maiello, San Francisco Chronicle "An important book ... Beautiful, heartbreaking, haunting." — Manuel Luis Martinez, Chicago Tribune

Themes
African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisPittsburghPittsburghMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages

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