'Baldwin wrote in arias of feeling and thought... [He] proved that if he wrote it down it
could have power beyond the moment.' - Hilton AlsIn this deeply personal book Baldwin reflects
on the experiences that shaped him as a writer and activist: from his childhood in Harlem to
the deaths Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Exploring the visceral reality of life in the
American South as well as Baldwin's impressions of London Paris and Hamburg No Name in the
Street grapples with the failed promises of global liberation movements in fearless candid
prose. Timeless tender and profound Baldwin's searing narrative contains the multiplicities
of what it means to be Black in America and indeed around the world.
