Buckhanon, Kalisha, 1977-

Upstate / Kalisha Buckhanon. - 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed. - New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2006. - 247 p.; 19 cm.

The story of a young couple in love and their struggle to maintain a relationship while the young man is incarcerated for a horrendous crime. In their letters beginning in 1990, Natasha and Antonio look back at their courtship against the landscape of their beloved Harlem.

ISBN: 0312332696 (tr. pbk) 9780312332693 (tr. pbk)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African American prisoners--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Fathers--Death--Fiction.
Young adults--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New York (State)--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Bildungsromans.
Love stories.
Epistolary fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3602.U264 / U67 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6 [Fic]