This is an absolutely breathtaking novel. James Baldwin's writing is so refined yet so raw and visceral. I was so immersed in both the emotional and physical world that these characters inhabited. This story is a reckoning with America at a very specific time in history and yet the larger questions it raises about race, sexuality, masculinity, love and humanity still resonate deeply today. Something Baldwin captures so brilliantly both here and in Giovanni's Room is the exquisite agony of existence and that essential, unanswerable question: how do we bear to live? In Another Country, love is perhaps both the problem and the solution, and the way Baldwin walks this tightrope is a wonder to behold.