Native Son Review

Some books get better with age.  Native Son is a book like that. The story, originally published in 1940: Bigger, a young black delinquent, gets a job as a chauffeur to wealthy white family, murders the daughter on his first night on the job, does a terrible job trying to cover up the crime, is discovered, flees, murders another girl, is caught, and is put on trial.  The book highlights two great divides in American society. First, the Black-White divide.  As a historical … [Read more...] about Reading Native Son in the 21st Century