A review by cowboyjonah
Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

5.0

"The seven years' difference in our ages lay between us like a chasm: I wondered if these years would ever operate between us as a bridge. I was remembering, and it made it hard to catch my breath, that I had been there when he was born; and I had heard the first words he had ever spoken. When he started to walk, he walked from our mother straight to me. I caught him just before he fell when he took the first steps he ever took in this world." 

James Baldwin is almost tooo good at prose, what a beautiful homage to brotherhood, race, life and music💙