Fire Next Time Hindu Forster chose it as the

Forster chose it as the Outstanding Novel of the Year

Born with an unusually low IQ

Blake and his daughters each must make a vital choice: risk everything to escape and warn the rest of the world

a professional athlete

This book is haunting

Fire Next Time Hindu Forster chose it as theA national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters, " written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation