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If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin's twelfth novel is a love story set in Harlem in the early 70's. Fonny and Tish are in love and their love protects them from their respective disfunctional families and the outside world until Fonny is falsely accused of rape. After his imprisonment, Tish finds out she is pregnant and she, her family and her lawyer race against the clock to find evidence that frees Fonny. It is a beautiful literary work, that depicts love at its most basic, which is a human being's need for another human being.
