Notes of a Native Son PRH Staff Picks the only Jamaican mother—who is

the only Jamaican mother—who is also a touring comedienne—at a prep school feels pressure to volunteer in the school’s International Day

and introduces a bold new voice in contemporary fiction

At the bustling crossroads of the American South and Southwest

with honors and awards pouring in from around the country

a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South

Notes of a Native Son PRH Staff Picks the only Jamaican mother—who is#26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in AmericaIn an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With films like I Am Not Your Negro and the forthcoming If Beale Street Could Talk bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of