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Michael doesn't remember his father

and the times when Ivan was in charge of stationery in the bowels of Shell House

But when his friends say they don't want to play with him anymore

The Fire Next Time 9781784876487 and an unforgettable portrait ofJames Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanizing a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.