3.5/5

What I enjoyed: By holding space for his own perspective on matters of religion, race relations, the Negro Problem, identity, amongst other polemic topic of the mid 20th century, he invites us to do the same with equal self-negation.

What could have been more of a vibe: this book is a little all over the place; whenever I felt like I was catching onto what he was saying there he was indulging into another eloquent yet misplaced tangent

Would recommend it to those interested in Baldwin’s universe, but for the general reader I don’t know that this would be an “immediately YES”…