{{Short description|1983 novel by John Edgar Wideman}} {{More footnotes needed|date=May 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books --> | name = Sent for You Yesterday | title_orig = | translator = | image = File:SentForYouYesterday.jpg | caption = First edition | author = John Edgar Wideman | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = | publisher = Avon Books | release_date = 1983 | media_type = Print (paperback) | pages = 208 | isbn = 0-380-82644-5 | oclc = 9450905 | preceded_by = Hiding Place | followed_by = Brothers and Keepers | awards = PEN/Faulkner Award }}

'''''Sent for You Yesterday''''' is a novel by the American writer John Edgar Wideman, first published in 1983 (in New York by Avon Books, and subsequently in London by Allison and Busby, 1984), set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the 1970s.

The novel tells the story of Albert Wilkes, who, after seven years on the run, returns to Homewood, an African-American neighborhood of the East End.

''Sent for You Yesterday'' is the third volume of what some critics call "The Homewood Trilogy". The other books are ''Damballah'' and ''Hiding Place'', both published in 1981. In 1992 the University of Pittsburgh Press published the three in one volume under the title ''The Homewood Books''.<ref>{{cite book | author=Wideman, John Edgar | title=The Homewood Books | location=Pittsburgh | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press | year=1992 | isbn=0-8229-3831-6 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/homewoodbooks00wide }}</ref> In its preface Wideman admits discomfort with the term trilogy because it implies a plan of linking the volumes, and he did not compose the books that way.

''Sent for You Yesterday'' won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1985.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-edgar-wideman/sent-for-you-yesterday/|title=Sent for You Yesterday|website=Kirkus Reviews|date=May 15, 1985|access-date=October 21, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/12/books/pen-award-for-fiction-goes-to-john-wideman.html|title=PEN Award for Fiction Goes to John Wideman|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 12, 1984|access-date=October 21, 2025}}</ref>

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