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Fleshing out Elizabeth’s story is so wonderful. Somehow James Baldwin is the only writer who knows how to really write people in the way they are. Not dramatizing them, just seeing them as they are. Flesh and blood and flawed.

I have picked this up and put it down intermittently... I must admit that half way through I have begun to get a little lost between the characters's stories as well as the gospel preaching and religious experience of the characters. I'm def having trouble following the storyline. It could be because I'm doing the audiobook or because I feel like I'm back at church as a child struggling to stay engaged 😂

Loved the hill, but esp the cinema where he had his mandatory diva worship awakening.

Very well written, the coming of age of a writer