Philadelphia Fire Author:John Edgar Wideman Philadelphia Fire is the most ambitious, most highly praised, and best-selling work of fiction by "one of America's premier writers of fiction" (The York Times). Based on the 1985 bombing police of a West Philadelphia row house owned the Afrocentric cult Move, it tells of Cudjoe, a writer who returns to his old neighborhood after a decade of sel... more »f-imposed exile, obsessed with finding the lone boy who was seen running from the flames.« less