Go Tell It on the Mountain was a controversial book when it was written.
James Baldwin’s coming-of-age tale about a queer 14-year-old and his religious family in Harlem deftly intertwines tales of race, sex, identity and spirituality in prose that is riveting and unforgettable. Go Tell It on the Mountain was a controversial book when it was written. But it’s an LGBTQ story worth reading again and again.