Yesterday Will Make You Cry

Yesterday Will Make You CryThere could not be a fitter time or place for the publication of this great prison novel than todays United States. H. Bruce Franklin, The Nation A classic restored the complete and unexpurgated text of a great African American writer's brutal and lyrical novel of prison life. First published in reduced and bowdlerized form in 1952 as Cast the First Stone, Yesterday Will Make You Cry was Chester Himes's first, most powerful, and autobiographical

He sheds light on how nefarious origin stories have skewed our views of ourselves and others and allowed gross injustices

The young black man

curators and critics deeply affected by this turbulent period of radical social and political upheaval in America

It's gonna be bloodletting as various fractions challenge them for superiority

Sabrina Jones

betrayed by friends

Informed by sharpness of observation and often courting controversy

a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo

Eric Garner

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