If Beale street could talk - James Baldwin

The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins

'Achingly beautiful' Guardian


Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen
and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn
child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their
families come together to fight for his freedom, will their love be
enough?

'Soulful . . . Racial injustice may flatten "the black
experience" into one single, fearful, constantly undermined way of life -
but black life, black love, is so much larger than that . . . It's one
of the signature lessons of Baldwin's work that blackness contains
multitudes' Vanity Fair

'If Beale Street Could Talk affirms
not only love between a man and a woman, but love of a type that is
dealt with only rarely in contemporary fiction - that between members of
a family' Joyce Carol Oates