Giovanni's Room

WHY I'M READING THIS

I'd read Baldwin's essays for years and somehow avoided the novels. A gap I'm glad to have finally closed.

WHAT I UNDERLINED

“"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition."”

WHAT I THINK

A short book that does more with restraint than most long ones manage with excess. I finished it in one sitting and needed a walk afterward.

QUESTIONS IT LEFT ME WITH

How much of identity is chosen, and how much is simply survived?

WHERE IT LED ME

A reading list detour into Baldwin's essays that I haven't finished yet, and don't intend to rush.