If Beale Street Could Talk. Ed Glinert Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon—the

Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon—the only female consultant at her hospital

” a laundress gives a long disquisition on the name days of the flora and fauna and on the Feast of the Holy Ghost

is living with her young son in a new neighborhood of Naples and working at a local factory

she means to sniff out old grudges and engineer new opportunities

If Beale Street Could Talk. Ed Glinert Elizabeth is a gifted surgeon—theWe 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 families to win justice for Fonny. To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance