If Beale Street Could Talk

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 Yorks infamous tombs. But his girlfriend Tish is determined to free him and to have his baby in this starkly realistic tale... a powerful indictment of American concepts of justice and punishment in our time.