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A review by pansy1993
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
5.0
"You play it safe long enough, and you'll end up trapped in your own dirty body, forever and forever and forever..."
I read this on the plane to and from different places and had to keep putting it down to not cry in public. It gutted me over and over again. Reading this is mourning the way the world was once and continues to be for so many. I felt so seen in parts of this book and others so thankful that I had better than so many have had the chance to have. The self hatred, he same, the judgement, the self preservation at the cost of it all. I wish for better - then, now, forever.
I read this on the plane to and from different places and had to keep putting it down to not cry in public. It gutted me over and over again. Reading this is mourning the way the world was once and continues to be for so many. I felt so seen in parts of this book and others so thankful that I had better than so many have had the chance to have. The self hatred, he same, the judgement, the self preservation at the cost of it all. I wish for better - then, now, forever.