Go Tell It on the Mountain
Rating
The Pequod Review:
James Baldwin’s partly-autobiographical novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has a refreshing realism, as it focuses on day-to-day lives of a 1930s family in Harlem — their religion, family and community. While it is sometimes too sentimental, Baldwin is a fine writer and his character study of John Grimes (an intelligent teenage boy living with an abusive step-father) is powerful.