The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series continued on Saturday Nov. 23, 2019. Nine of us met and all agreed that this was a hard book to digest. Even though we talked for nearly two hours, we didn't have time to comment on all of it. Laura said these "were such horror stories, there's an overall feeling of danger lurking." The eight stories collected in the book are: " The Rockpile " " The Outing " " The Man Child " " Previous Condition " " Sonny's Blues " " This Morning, This Evening, So Soon " " Come Out the Wilderness " " Going to Meet the Man " Most of the stories seem to end with no resolution at all. I think that we're used to stories having some kind of satisfying ending, which Baldwin does not give. The other thing is that when Baldwin used flashbacks, there wasn't really any transitional phrase to cue the reader that what's being describ
The Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series meets approximately once every six weeks at the Courtland S. Wilson Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library in New Haven, CT.