Beautiful and torturous story from beginning to end. David’s efforts to hate himself into being a man he could respect will stick with me for a while.

HOWEVER:
If ever, in the world, in the future, perhaps, there is a shortage of commas, then we, as a society, certainly, need look no further than this novel, where there is an abundance so great, we must assume, readily, that Baldwin considers them tantamount to spaces.