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About Native Son

Richard Wright's Native Son (1940) is a standalone novel following Bigger Thomas, a twenty-year-old Black man from Chicago's South Side who accidentally kills his white employer's daughter and is subsequently tried for her murder. The first Book of the Month Club selection by a Black author and the foundational text of Black American protest fiction.

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