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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. Fonny and Tish were madly in love and, and Tish was deeply hurt when Fonny was accused of rape.
