Go Tell It on the Mountain

Short Thoughts. I need to read this again. This feels much more like Flannery O'Connor's ‘shouting when people are hard of hearing' than the other book of fiction I have read by Baldwin Giovanni's Room. Like O'Connor I mostly didn't like the characters and while I can understand motivation and the situation, it mostly makes me that harmed people harm others.

Baldwin is an incredible writer though. I am continually amazed at how he layers meaning and allusions. Here it is almost all biblical. I don't know how you would read this book without being very biblically literate.

This is just a book that requires more than one reading.

My longer thoughts are on my blog at http://bookwi.se/go-tell-it-on-the-mountain/