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If Beale Street Could Talk
James Baldwin · Literary Fiction · 197 pages
40 Pulse Score
Based on recommendations from independent creators
historical fictionforbidden romancetrauma recovery
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🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
#318 All Time
About this book
Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions. In it are anger and pain, but above all, love -- affirmative love of a woman for her man, the sustaining love of a black family. Fonny, a talented young artist, finds himself unjustly arrested and locked in New York's infamous tombs. But his girlfriend, Tish, is determined to free him, and to have his baby, in this starkly realisitic tale... a powerful endictment of American concepts of justice and punishment in our time.
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