If Beale Street Could Talk

From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" ( The New York Times Book Review ). "One of the best books Baldwin has ever written—perhaps the best of all." — The Philadelphia Inquirer Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love