Native Son
Richard Wright • 1940
Devastation Rating
injustice poverty literary fiction political trauma
Our Take
Bigger Thomas commits an act of terror and Wright refuses to let you look away from what created him. The white liberal characters are almost more damning than the racist ones — their goodwill makes no difference. A novel about how a society produces what it then punishes, written with furious controlled power.
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