A review by liloopie
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This is a short but potent read. Written over 64 years ago, Baldwin tattoos race relations like a masterful painter yielding a paint brush.  His insights and clarity make for gut wrenching and anguish but enlightening read. His mastery and prose is exquisite if not sorrowful at times.  I encourage everyone to read this book if you want to know how the US can move forward and possibly beyond the shit show of a mess that plagues our country and divides us by our childish understanding of humanity and race relations that still has left un healing scars and promises left broken on of how we could a better country.