# Sent for You Yesterday

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{{Short description|1983 novel by John Edgar Wideman}}
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| name         = Sent for You Yesterday
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| image        = File:SentForYouYesterday.jpg
| caption      = First edition
| author       = [John Edgar Wideman](/source/John_Edgar_Wideman)
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| country      = United States
| language     = English
| series       = 
| genre        = 
| publisher    = [Avon Books](/source/Avon_Books)
| release_date = 1983
| media_type   = Print (paperback) 
| pages        = 208
| isbn         = 0-380-82644-5
| oclc         = 9450905
| preceded_by  = [Hiding Place](/source/Hiding_Place_(Wideman_novel)) 
| followed_by  = [Brothers and Keepers](/source/Brothers_and_Keepers)
| awards       = [PEN/Faulkner Award](/source/PEN%2FFaulkner_Award)
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'''''Sent for You Yesterday''''' is a novel by the American writer [John Edgar Wideman](/source/John_Edgar_Wideman), first published in 1983 (in New York by [Avon Books](/source/Avon_Books), and subsequently in London by [Allison and Busby](/source/Allison_and_Busby), 1984), set in [Pittsburgh](/source/Pittsburgh), [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania), during the 1970s.

The novel tells the story of Albert Wilkes, who, after seven years on the run, returns to [Homewood](/source/Homewood_West_(Pittsburgh)), an [African-American neighborhood](/source/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](/source/Hiding_Place_(Wideman_novel))'', both published in 1981. In 1992 the [University of Pittsburgh Press](/source/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](/source/PEN%2FFaulkner_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](/source/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](/source/The_New_York_Times)|date=May 12, 1984|access-date=October 21, 2025}}</ref>

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Category:1983 American novels
Category:African-American novels
Category:Allison and Busby books
Category:Avon (publisher) books
Category:Fiction set in the 1970s
Category:Novels by John Edgar Wideman
Category:Novels set in Pittsburgh
Category:PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction–winning works

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