Join moderators Kathy Schultenover and Andy Brennan for a discussion of James Baldwin’s book Go Tell It on the Mountain. This is a free event which will take place in store on Thursday, September 29th at 6:00 PM Central Time.
Registration is not required for this meeting. Masks are strongly encouraged.
About the Book
In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.
With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else.
