James Baldwin
James Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright and social critic known for his incisive explorations of race, sexuality and class in mid-20th-century America. Notable works include Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, Giovanni's Room, Another Country and The Fire Next Time.
Books
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2. Gridalo Forte
A powerful coming-of-age novel centered on a teenage boy in Harlem who, caught between the fervor of his Pentecostal church and the burdens of his family’s past, confronts questions of faith, guilt, sexuality, and identity; as a single day of confession and revelation unfolds, memories of his parents’ lives in the South and the harshness of his father’s authority force him to reckon with personal and generational trauma and to search for the possibility of spiritual and emotional liberation.