Hey guys, it's Adventure Van here with a blog about Baldwin, Early Novels & Stories. Written, obviously, by James Baldwin, this book is a collection of short stories called "Go Tell It on the Mountain", "Giovanni's Room", "Another Country", and "Going To Meet the Man". The collection of stories is centered and focused around the lives of black communities. As much as each story has a separate story, they all indirectly and directly focus on the love and hate and discrimination and all the other things blacks have to go thru, whatever or not their age or status is.
The stories are well done in illustrating every detail. It really feels natural enough to make you think and feel like you're actually experiencing the stories. And they're all great stories, each with their own takes and even changing from chapter to chapter while staying the same. However, and this is a somewhat unavoidable problem, the fact that some names are used again during a separate story can easily throw off an unsuspecting reader. But due to fact that these are short stories, unrelated to each other in terms of everything but setting, and aren't meant to be read in short succession of each other, that is not the author's fault in any shape or form.
It's an important author to follow, especially in this day and age.
Adventure Van, reading.
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