The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

At the heart of this Pulitzer Prize winning play stands the ornately carved upright piano that has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, her exuberant brother, bursts into her life with his dream of buying the same Mississippi land that their family had worked on as slaves, he plans to sell their antique piano for the cash he needs to stake his future. Berniece refuses to sell, clinging to the piano as a reminder of the history that is their family legacy.