If Beale Street Could Talk Books one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by

one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter

seconding her ideas…devouring her with those eyes

This sweeping

—Publishers Weekly

If Beale Street Could Talk Books one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed byFrom one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes 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