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she begins to understand—and fear—the escalating dangers that await them all

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so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind

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in which the drama of Katharine and Maxime's marriage unfolds

If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin mental health she begins to understand—and fear—the''Achingly beautiful'' Guardian Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin''s novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it