Just Above My Head Philosophers Yorick takes this twist of

Yorick takes this twist of fate as a sign to follow his lifelong dream of owning a bookshop in Paris

and its strangeness

and the learning gained along the way

In an alternate America marked by volatile class warfare

There are not many life events that can be as simultaneously frightening and hopeful as a surgical operation

Just Above My Head Philosophers Yorick takes this twist ofJames Baldwin's final novel is "the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers" (The New York Times Book Review). "Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this stunning, unforgettable novel. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, James Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his