August’s Open Book Club: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Open Book Club meets next on Monday, August 4.

Two In-Person Sessions:
10 – 11 am at Morningside Branch Library
5 to 6 pm at the Aalfs Downtown Library (free parking in the evening)

August’s title is Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin.

With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, “Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else.” 

Can’t make it to the in-person meetings? Sign up to attend the Virtual Book Club via Zoom on August 6 from 12 noon to 1 pm – Get Registered Here!