A review by elerireads
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

5.0

Hideously and achingly sad, practically from start to finish, and therefore of course utterly brilliant. I naïvely thought reading my book in a coffee shop would be a nice pleasant way to spend an hour, but ended up spending most of the time sobbing in a corner and unnerving the other poor customers of Caffè Nero. This book was both impossible to put down, and unbearable to read. Now I've finished it I want to reread it immediately, but also wish I could forget everything about it.