“Let’s eat,’ I say. ‘Come on.’
I have prepared what I know Fonny likes: ribs and cornbread and rice, with gravy, and green peas. Fonny puts on the record player, low: Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On.
‘Maybe Tish can’t gain no weight,’ says Daniel, after a moment, ‘but you sure will. You folks mind if I drop by more often - say, around this time?’
from If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (1974). Very Highly Recommended.
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