Homewood Books in Order

Wanted after a man dies, Tommy seeks shelter with his relative Mother Bess above Pittsburgh’s Homewood streets. Both carry anger and fear shaped by their losses, and their uneasy refuge forces them to confront what returning to the world might require.

Interlinked stories trace the history and voices of Homewood, a Pittsburgh neighborhood rooted in the era of slavery. Family memories and community narratives reveal the persistence of the past in lives too often reduced to labels or overlooked.

After seven years on the run, Albert Wilkes returns to Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood. His homecoming becomes part of a larger story of the community, where remembered lives and the pressures of history continue to shape the present.