Sent for You Yesterday
 First edition | |
| Author | John Edgar Wideman |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Avon Books |
Publication date | 1983 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 0-380-82644-5 |
| OCLC | 9450905 |
| Preceded by | Hiding Place |
| Followed by | Brothers and Keepers |
Sent for You Yesterday is a novel by the American writer John Edgar Wideman 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. In 1992 the University of Pittsburgh Press published the three in one volume under the title The Homewood Books. 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.
References
- Wideman, John Edgar (1992). The Homewood Books. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-3831-6.