Nothing Personal by James Baldwin fiction Already suffering from crippling anxiety

Already suffering from crippling anxiety

is more interested in fixing cars than falling in love—unless it’s with her sister’s suitor

Just give me a chance and I’ll level mountains and kill untold millions

Or an ordinary girl

are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang

Nothing Personal by James Baldwin fiction Already suffering from crippling anxietyNothing Personal is Baldwins deep probe into the American condition. Considering the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020which were met with tear gas and rubber bullets the same year white supremacists entered the US Capitol with little resistance, openly toting flags of the ConfederacyBaldwins documentation of his own troubled times cuts to the core of where we find ourselves today. Baldwins thoughts move through an interconnected range