James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (Loa #97): Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni's Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man this is a must-read

this is a must-read

Trying to change the world and maybe transcend it

has some ghosts of her own

with a locked shed in the backyard

James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (Loa #97): Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni's Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man this is a must-readHere, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), tells the story, rooted in Baldwin's own experience, of a preacher's son coming of age in 1930's Harlem. Ten years in the writing, its exploration of religious, sexual, and generational conflicts was