If Beale Street Could Talk Ryan Plaisance to love what's in our

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graphic novel adventure for middle graders

If Beale Street Could Talk Ryan Plaisance to love what's in our*This is NOT a comic! But we read books too sometimes! By James Baldwin. Published by Penguin. Softcover, 192 pages, Prose, 1974 (2019 printing) We are in 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