![]() This is the Canon describes If Beale Street Could Talk as “one of America’s classic urban love stories”, adding: Together, we thought it might be fun to read some of the books from This is the Canon and write joint reviews on an ad-hoc basis following a simple format. I had already spotted If Beale Street Could Talk on her bookshelves when I visited in early March (and she kindly decamped to her sister’s room to let me stay in hers). ![]() ![]() I bought a copy for Monet, my 18-year-old, Melbourne-based niece, because I thought it might be something she would like. The book is listed in ‘This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelf in 50 Books’, which I reviewed earlier in the year. How their respective families deal with the situation - Tish’s family is positive and supportive Fonny’s is less so - and the ways in which the couple hang onto their love forms the heart of the story. It is essentially a love story between 19-year-old Tish and 21-year-old Fonny - but there’s a twist: Tish is pregnant and Fonny, a sculptor, is now in jail, falsely accused of raping a “Porto Rican”. Fiction – paperback Penguin Modern Classics 192 pages 1994.įirst published in 1974, James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk is set in Harlem in the 1970s. ![]()
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