Be sure to check out the book of the month page. For the month of January we will be reading "Native Son," a classic by Richard Wright.
Go get your copy today. Already read it? Great, read it again, you may have a different perspective this time around.
Also feel free to leave comments and suggestions for next month book selection.
We will have our open forum discussion about the reading on 01/29/2014. Time TBA
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.
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