Yesterday Will Make You Cry

by Chester Himes

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a masterful autobiographical novel about the injustices of the prison system and the humanity that flourishes despite it

Jimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. Terror and chaos reign in the prison, where corrupt, racist guards mete out capricious punishments like time in "the hole," where inmates' sense of reality slips away in total darkness. When a fire...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593686667
• ISBN13: 9780593686669
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 400 Pages