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closeupready

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12. Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin.

Reply to Enthusiast (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2014, 12:28 AM

Sep 2014

I'm not far in yet, but it's just a fabulously written book - very honest, and bold (for its time). Just in the first chapter, the narrator has made me feel almost like, 'what, is this the story of MY life, so many parallels here.'

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