GR Reads: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
This month we are reading "The Fire Next Time" by one of the greatest American authors, James Baldwin. Whether you have just started the book or finished it months ago, all are welcome to come and join our book club.
This book club is free and open to the public. Purchase your copy at Pages and get 15% off.
About The Fire Next Time:
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle...all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.