He is eager to find a loft, a place with space for his work, because it will allow him adequate space to create his sculptures and set up a household with Tish. Having survived constant trouble as a boy, Fonny is a sculptor. Joseph reluctantly grants his permission. Tish and Fonny consummate their relationship one night during a date, and Fonny takes Tish back to her family’s apartment to seek permission from Joseph, Tish’s father, to marry Tish. If Beale Street Could Talk is a love story about Tish and Fonny’s early courtship, Fonny’s arrest on false charges, and the birth of their child.Īfter a childhood spent teasing and fighting each other, Tish and Fonny fall in love when she is 18 and he is 22, much to the displeasure of Alice Hunt (Fonny’s mother), and the couple begins searching for a loft where they can live together. Fonny is the troubled son of parents who argue constantly, and his sisters ostracize him.
Tish Rivers has grown up as the protected baby of the working-class Rivers family in the gritty surroundings of Harlem during the 1960s.
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