Go Tell It on the Mountain Audiobook

James Baldwins haunting comingofage story with a new introduction by Roxane Gay

Originally published in 1953 Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwins first major work based in part on his own childhood in Harlem With lyrical precision psychological directness resonating symbolic power and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate Baldwin chronicles a fourteenyearold boys discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem Baldwins rendering of his protagonists spiritual sexual and moral struggle toward selfinvention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understood themselves