IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

If Beale Street Could Talk is James Baldwin's gift to American Literature, a moving story of love in the face of injustice.

In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin creates two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.

The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape.

Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny.

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin - 9780140187977