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Binge-reading ‘Another Country’ by james baldwin 📚🌃💋
Greenwich village , Harlem, and seaside France just after WWII. sad and beautiful and tragic and even a little bit funny. about a friend group in NY — containing black, white, queer, straight, and married people , men and women, girls and boys, actors, writers, jazz musicians, and housewives. all figuring out how why and whether they love each other when American segregation, misogyny, and homophobia are structures of daily life that make love difficult or impossible. Deals with race relations and bisexuality but in a way that is mostly narrative-driven, not theoretical. read it if you love the tv show Mad Men or the book Giovanni’s room. Or bisexuals
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Jan 23, 2024
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@sofiag777
seconded!!
Jan 28, 2024
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@maggie
omg shout it from the rooftops!! i couldn’t agree more, the visceral NY-ness, the psychology of all of the characters and their biases, fuck it’s so goooood also “because he has a sense of himself” killed me
Jan 23, 2024
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