A review by mrsdoubtflyer
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

not easy read, but an important one. Amazing in its scope, from the literarily critical to the personal to the philosophical to the political. It can feel in excessively referential at its start, if one isn’t versed in Richard Wright and Harriet Beecher Stowe. But the payoff is enormous. Never has there been a more honest soul, about the world or himself, nor one with a higher standard in mind for both, and for each and all of us.