Another Country - James Baldwin

A powerful novel of strained racial and sexual relations within a small group of friends in new York City. Another Country shows the harsh reality of life tainted by denial and jealousy, happiness shadowed by self-deceit, and the effects of selfish actions perpetrated under the pretense of loneliness that cause more pain than relief.

As a result of change, the characters grow increasingly out of touch with themselves and their established lives; each caught up in their own self pity, they fail to realize those they are leaning on also stand cracked and shaking. Between these personal battles also fester the societal wounds of racial intolerance (both on the part of whites and blacks) and prejudice against homosexuality. Despite the somewhat over-used setting of New York (even in the 60s) this novel charges into some of the most important issues that continue to plague the "land of the free." Another Country should be required reading for anyone who considers themselves to be American.

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