If Beale Street Could Talk Kwanzaa but as Evelyn’s story near

but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion

”—The New York Times Book Review

” —The Washington PostThe instant New York Times bestseller and finalist for the 2021 National Book Award is “wildly inventive

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became--in the process--a New Negro himself"--

If Beale Street Could Talk Kwanzaa but as Evelyn’s story nearBy James Baldwin A stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review) "One of the best books Baldwin has ever writtenperhaps the best of all." The Philadelphia Inquirer Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen year old girl, in love with Fonny, a