KEITH E. BYERMAN is a professor of English at Indiana State University. He is the author or editor of six previous books, including Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction.

[A] detailed, sensitive, and workmanlike study . . . one cannot leave Fingering the Jagged Grain without great appreciation of its author’s holistic reading of recent black fiction and his honest and enlightening exploration of its complexities and its power.

KEITH E. BYERMAN is a professor of English at Indiana State University. He is the author or editor of six previous books, including Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction.

[A] detailed, sensitive, and workmanlike study . . . one cannot leave Fingering the Jagged Grain without great appreciation of its author’s holistic reading of recent black fiction and his honest and enlightening exploration of its complexities and its power.