If Beale Street Could Talk Adrian Matejka The characters

The characters

The visual portrayal of Bina’s love of music

we see a journey in understanding and misunderstanding

an original thinker

discovers her true allies

If Beale Street Could Talk Adrian Matejka The characters*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