We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America Binding:Paperback In the fall of 1959

In the fall of 1959

a powerful and unforgettable meditation on love

James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk is a profoundly moving novel about love in the face of injustice that is as socially resonant today as it was when it was first published

Translations to Korean text in the story and more about the folktale-inspired characters are included at the end

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America Binding:Paperback In the fall of 1959Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle for Nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Washington Post best nonfiction book of 2023 Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction "A riveting indictment of the child welfare system . . . [A] bracing gut punch of a book." Robert Kolker, The Washington Post "[A] moving and superbly reported book." Jessica Winter, The New Yorker "A harrowing account . . . [and] a powerful critique