sapphicaffair 's review for:

Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin

4.0

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Read these for class. I love Sonny's Blues, it's one of my favorites. The descriptions are beautiful, I can feel everything that they're going through, and it's very well told in a way that makes you feel what Baldwin wants you to feel. The title story was much harder to digest. I think that in lesser hands it wouldn't have been as powerful or as impactful as this was, and it was just a really good story that takes a bit longer to like. The subject matter of racism and the graphic way it depicts it, along with the sympathy that it draws up for the main character, makes it a hard story to talk about and to discuss. However, the heaviness that it draws up shows just how well it's written and just how important it is. Overall, I really liked this one and there's a lot to take from his writing.