Nothing Personal by James Baldwin fiction Roux tells her that if

Roux tells her that if she doesn’t give her what she asks for

Or an ordinary girl

time stopped

are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang

is more interested in fixing cars than falling in love—unless it’s with her sister’s suitor

Nothing Personal by James Baldwin fiction Roux tells her that ifNothing Personal is Baldwins deep probe into the American condition. Considering the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020which were met with tear gas and rubber bullets the same year white supremacists entered the US Capitol with little resistance, openly toting flags of the ConfederacyBaldwins documentation of his own troubled times cuts to the core of where we find ourselves today. Baldwins thoughts move through an interconnected range