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Just Above My Head

by James Baldwin · October 27, 1994

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Popularity 35

This sprawling drama traces the passage of three individuals through the events of the nineteen-fifties, sixties, and seventies from the Apollo in Harlem to the Olympia in Paris. Love and courage bind a former child evangelist, a famous gospel singer, and the latter's manager-brother.

Fiction, generalBrothers, fictionEnglish fictionAfrican American menBrothersFictionGay menAfrican American familiesGospel musiciansHomosexuels masculinsRomans, nouvellesFamilles noires américaines