Native Son by Richard Wright

God damn. If you’re American and haven’t yet done so, please read this book (and if you’re not American, it’s still worth a read). I think it’s best if you go in, like I did, not knowing too much of what happens. That said, from a high level, Bigger Thomas, a poor black man, gets a job driving for a rich white family and is slowly pulled into contact with communists before a terrible sequence of events unfolds.