A Love So Fine
by William Banks
Category: Fiction

Anderson Williamson was a Yale student. Vivian Reed was in her first year at Barnard College. This fictional couple's relationship was the basis for the first modern African American romance novel. Andy first saw Vivian across a crowded room at a college mixer. It was the beginning of a love so rare and so fine that it would endure the bitter-sweet pain of infidelity and senseless tragedy as well as the pressures of a new awareness born in the maelstrom of the nineteen sixties. And so love taught me the meaning of my name. And love taught me that my blackness was never darkness. So will love rest me, Even while I work, And whisper in my heart and womb. No waiting space is empty. -A Love So Fine "This book is a vivid and inspiring representation of the 1960s as experienced by the young, gifted and black ." -Publishers Weekly, April 1974