GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
New Birth's July 2026 Book of the Month

%u200B%u200B%u200B%u200B%u200B%u200B%u200BBaldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else."