James Baldwin 
If Beale Street Could Talk 

The inspiration for the 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