Go Tell It on the Mountain

Beautifully heavy book. There was an air of doom around all the characters throughout the book, like everyone is living until that one mistake that would ruin them, and it didn't feel like the exception, but the rule of Black Americans during Jim Crow. Instead of the shackles of slavery, there was the shackles of family, of race, of the police, of white America, and of God. I felt like they were a people cursed, most probably because it was written in a way mimicking the language of the Bible. I don't know what to get from the ending though, it felt optimistic, but also delusional.

Will need to read up more on the book, and James Baldwin, it is after all semi-autobiographical. And I will definitely read his other books.