Length: 230 pages
Genre: General fiction
New York City: Clementine "Tish" Rivers is nineteen years old, pregnant and engaged to Alonzo "Fonny" Hunt. However Fonny is in jail, having been accused of rape. As Tish and her family fight against a racist system to prove Fonny's innocence, the story of their relationship is told in flashbacks.
This book is powerful, angry, compassionate and beautifully written. James Baldwin is one of the most important American writers of the 20th Century, and this is an urgent and vital book - that is as relevant today as it was in 1974. It's frequently dark and gritty read, but there is a hard-won optimism here, and the love story between Fonny and Tish is beautifully detailed, and Baldwin writes beautiful, poetic prose. It's also a novel about being black in America, and just tying to live life when the whole system is against you.
It's a great book, that everyone should read.
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