Question

When he was young, a man in this novel changed his lifestyle after stopping at a tree and crying in repentance as he was walking home to his mother from a prostitute. Near the beginning of this novel, the protagonist looks at photographs on the mantle like ones of his dead mother and himself naked as a baby. This novel ends as the sun strikes the protagonist’s forehead where an older boy just bestowed a “holy kiss.” Near the end of this novel, a man reads a letter written by his dead wife Deborah revealing that she knew of his affair with Esther. The protagonist of this novel has visions in the section “The Threshing-Floor” (10[1])in the Temple of the Fire Baptized in Harlem. For 10 points, the hypocritical preacher Gabriel witnesses the spiritual awakening of his stepson John Grimes in what novel by James Baldwin? ■END■

ANSWER: Go Tell It on the Mountain
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