Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin #foliosociety Poems to make your blood

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Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin #foliosociety Poems to make your bloodJames Baldwin's electrifying first novel. 'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.' Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels