TWENTYPLUSTOU

If I didn’t know who the author was of If Beale Street Could Talk, I would have assumed that a woman wrote this work. James Baldwin is an artist when it comes to telling stories. His words paint a world that one could envision as each page is turned. This story of love, hope, and despair is told through a character named Tish. Tish is a 19-year old African-American girl from New York who is in love with Fonny (a sculptor and the father of her child). When Fonny is falsely acc