A review by ginkgotree
Another Country by James Baldwin

4.0

James Baldwin's writing is utterly gorgeous. It's interesting, reading this book, to see what has changed and what has not. Relationships between men and women are not quite the same now as they were in 1960, and attitudes towards homosexuality have changed quite a bit, but when it comes to race, we have not come nearly as far. Though it takes place in a very specific time and place - especially evident from the characters' dialogue - in some ways this book feels timeless.