Go Tell it on the Mountain - James Baldwin

BookNotes author: James-Baldwin

Novel dealing with one black family and a church sevirce, based in 1930’s Harlem.

• Hypnotic sermon like writing, incredible on a sentence level. Like Virginia Woolf in how it moves from one perspective to another seamlessly. All the characters feel so alive.
• Based around one night at a church and one conversion87.
• Everyone is flawed and sinners, everyone are hypocrites but the religious experience is never dismissed.
• Ever present threat of racist violence in the background. Community comes together against the threats.
• Brilliant. Want to read more.