Book #517, Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, is about a boy's spiritual awakening on his 14th birthday in 1930s Harlem. Stories like this always make me sad - a harsh, uncaring father, shattered dreams, rampant racism and violence. I would like to say that the world has changed, but it hasn't - at least not nearly enough. This is a book that I am glad to have read, but am equally glad to be done with.
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