The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni’s Room, and to the political fire that inflames his nonfiction work.
Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Montana and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses—and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land.
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“This not a novel to read anywhere you can’t sit down: Just above My Head has required the most emotional work from me out of all the books I’ve read. But if you have the time, it will reward you with the unshakable feeling that you really have lived in the world of its characters and have come to understand something about yourself.”
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Paris Review