If Beale Street Could Talk Popular science in camo and a flak

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When we or someone we know is faced with grief and pain

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The new must-read cozy crime mystery from the bestselling author of Dial A For Aunties

If Beale Street Could Talk Popular science in camo and a flakWe are in 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