Title: Go Tell It on the Mountain
First published: September 1993
Description: In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.

With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else."
Subjects: African americans, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, African American families, Racism, Fiction, Religion, African American men, African Americans, Blind, books and reading, Children's fiction, Christian sects, Classic literature, Literature, National Black Family Month, FICTION / African American / General, FICTION / Classics, Fiction, african american, general, FICTION / African American / Urban Life, FICTION / Gay, FICTION / African American / Christian, Fiction, african american & black, general, American literature, Black people, Men
Places: United States, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)