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Jessica Haider
Feb 11, 2020 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 1001-books, fiction, bipoc-author, classics, spiritual-and-stuff, bookriot_2020, popsugar_2020, modern-library-100
This is the 2nd book that I've read by James Baldwin. I read Giovanni's Room a few years ago and liked it.

Go Tell it on the Mountain is Baldwin's first novel and is set in Harlem in the 1930's and centers around an African-American family. It is John Grimes 14th birthday and he is overwhelmed by his father Gabriel, who is a church leader. A lot of the book is about John struggling with and trying to find his faith. John lives under the shadow of his father who preaches that anything John finds ...more
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Sarah
Dec 30, 2013 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, radical-nonfiction, classics, american-fiction, appalachia, black-history-and-culture, american-nonfiction, nyc
I felt like my expectations for this book were too high. My favorite parts were the middle chapters about Florence and Elizabeth, but I didn't particularly feel like the narrative arc was actually powerful. I wanted more confrontation between John and Gabriel or something unpredictable, or something. I don't know. Maybe I'm missing something. ...more
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