Just Above My Head

James Baldwin · 1979 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Hall Montana begins talking two years after his brother Arthur, a gospel singer billed as the Soul Emperor, was found dead in a London basement, because his own son has started asking questions. What comes back are the quartet tours through the segregated South, Julia the child evangelist and her brother Jimmy, and a love between Arthur and Crunch for which the church had no words. Baldwin's last novel, and his longest.

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