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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

Trailblazer. Activist. Visionary. James Baldwin inspired countless artists with his pointed, elegant and electric work — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, and Jason Reynolds, to name a few. Showcasing his inimitable voice through essays on culture, politics and identity, Notes of a Native Son is a revolutionary, necessary read.

Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by The Guardian and TIME

The essays in James Baldwin's first nonfiction collection explore what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity

Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's timeless and moving essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad inaugurated him as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the 20th century.

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