The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry
Jenkins 'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem, the
black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray
Charles. 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. To this
love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity,
charging it with universal resonance and power. 'If Beale Street Could
Talk affirms not only love between a man and a woman, but love of a
type that is dealt with only rarely in contemporary fiction - that
between members of a family' Joyce Carol Oates
If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
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