In Brothers and Keepers, John Edgar Wideman uses a range of narrative
techniques to unravel the complicated relationship between he and his
brother Robert Wideman. These different narrative techniques, such as
letter writing, greatly assisted to the overall movement of the writing. Wideman engages the reader with detailed descriptions of not only the
physical barriers between himself and Robby but the emotional canyons
that separated them.
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