Just Above My Head Philosophers " a falsehood that damages

" a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men--bodies exploited through slavery and segregation

tragic mother and reserved Naval officer father

Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision

and social meaning

who needs all his help surviving the local high school

Just Above My Head Philosophers " a falsehood that damagesJames Baldwin's final novel is "the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers" (The New York Times Book Review). "Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this stunning, unforgettable novel. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, James Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his