num_pages: 363
description: A restored edition of the author's 1937 autobiographical novel of Jimmy Monroe portrays an African-American prisoner who must endure racism, homosexuality, and prison corruption, all of which test the limits of his sanity, his capacity for suffering, and his definition of love.
language: English
title: Yesterday Will Make You Cry
titlecomplete: Yesterday Will Make You Cry
genres: Fiction, American, Mystery, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, Crime, African American
ratings_count: 295
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc