An American in Paris | Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

In this episode, we chat about James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. This 1956 classic tells the story of a young American navigating his Parisian life and relationship with a man named Giovanni. We discuss the novel’s main character David and his relationships while unpacking the story’s topics of sexual identity, the idea of masculinity and internalized homophobia. In our segment Top or Flop, we tell you about our month’s favourite reads and least loved books and answer a spontaneous bookish question!Join us as we revisit this classic story and reflect on if and why it still resonates with readers today! Find us on Instagram @ThroughthePagesPod and let us know what you thought about this novel.