narrator

The narrator of Baldwin’s story watches from the audience as his brother, a pianist, plays onstage.

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“You see how challenging it was for her to confront so much of her own story. It’s also a window into her as an unreliable narrator.”

But the narrator rebels against her mother's oppression: "Oh mama, I'm just having fun/On the stage in my heels/It's where I belong."

“It’s hard to believe, but it’s true,” the narrator says.