I know I am a bit late to the party, but James Baldwin is an amazing writer. This one is set (mainly) in New York and follows the lives of several characters, white and Black, male and female, gay and straight. Close third person narrative, so it feels very immediate but the reader doesn't have a guarantee that it's going to turn out OK, as first person narrator tends to imply. Lots of pain and suffering, as much from gender and orientation as from race - Baldwin is really good at getting inside the heads of different kinds of people.
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