Giovanni?s Room Baldwin?s second novel deals frankly with homosexuality in a manner daring for its time. It depicts a white American struggling to accept his homoerotic desires. David the protagonist like Baldwin himself feels alienated from his native country and moves to Paris in search of a freer life. In the passage Baldwin reads on this recording David recalls a childhood sexual encounter with another boy?an encounter that left him deeply upset and ambivalent about his manhood.
