title: Reuben (novel)
text: # Reuben (novel)
  
  Reuben is a novel by the American writer John Edgar Wideman set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1980s.
  
  The novel tells the story of Reuben, an aging African-American man who lives in an abandoned trailer, but is a lawyer and go-between on behalf of poor blacks in Homewood, a neighborhood of the East End.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2005.
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