Philadelphia Fire | Characters
Philadelphia Fire is unique in its combination of real and fictional characters, including Cudjoe, Wideman, J.B., and Caliban. Cudjoe, the fictionalized protagonist, returns from a decade in Greece to search for Simba, the shadowy survivor of the 1985 bombing of a Rastafarian cult by Philadelphia city officials. He never finds the boy, but his reflections on the city, his old neighborhood, and his own identity provide the structural basis for the narrative. Cudjoe's search for answers becomes the reader's own.
Cudjoe is a well-educated, successful writer. His self-imposed...
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