About this book
Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions. In it are anger and pain, but above all, love -- affirmative love of a woman for her man, the sustaining love of a black family. Fonny, a talented young artist, finds himself unjustly arrested and locked in New York's infamous tombs. But his girlfriend, Tish, is determined to free him, and to have his baby, in this starkly realisitic tale... a powerful endictment of American concepts of justice and punishment in our time.
Subjects
African American fictionTeenage pregnancyPrisonsInjusticeLove storiesAfrican AmericansFictionAfrican American menMan-woman relationshipsJustice (Virtue)African americans, fictionAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Man-woman relationships, fictionNew york (n.y.), fictionLarge type booksNoirs américainsRomans, nouvellesRomance fiction