Upstate

Description:

Harlem, 1985. Antonio has been seeing Natasha for a while now. Their relationship is full of the drama, the passion and the intensity of every first love affair. But their story is different. For Antonio is on trial for the murder of his father. This is Natasha and Antonio's story, one struggling to cope with life in jail, the other with life outside. Extraordinarily vivid and honest, their letters to each other narrate the rollercoaster ride of first love with stunning insight.

subjects: Death,  Young adults,  Fathers,  Fiction,  African American women,  African American prisoners,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 9,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Reading Level-Grade 11,  Reading Level-Grade 10,  Reading Level-Grade 12,  African americans, fiction,  New york (n.y.), fiction,  Fiction, romance, general,  Bildungsromans,  Epistolary fiction,  Fiction, general,  Fiction, romance, contemporary,  Man-woman relationships, fiction,  New york (state), fiction

Places: New York (State),  New York (N.Y.)