William H. Banks Jr.

A Love So Fine: a Love Story That You Will Never Forget William H. Banks Jr.

Anderson Williamson was a Yale student. Vivian Reedwas in her first year at Barnard College. This fictionalcouple's relationship was the basis for the first modernAfrican American romance novel. Andy first saw Vivianacross a crowded room at a college mixer. It was thebeginning of a love so rare and so fine that it wouldendure the bitter-sweet pain of infidelity and senselesstragedy as well as the pressures of a new awareness bornin 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 asexperienced by the young, gifted and black ."-Publishers Weekly, April 1974