Author: jamesbaldwin

In this revolutionary classic, one of the greatest writers of 20th-century America — the voice behind last year’s Academy Award–nominated I Am Not Your Negro — frankly explores race, gender, and sexuality in 1950s Greenwich Village. “An almost unbearable, tumultuous, blood-pounding experience” (The Washington Post).

Over the course of one day, a 14-year-old Harlem boy struggles with family, history, and identity. A “brutal, objective, and compassionate” novel (San Francisco Chronicle) written with “vivid imagery” and “lavish attention to details” (The New York Times).