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Native Son
by Richard Wright12th Grade pick #25 · 504 pages · ISBN 9780060837563As an Amazon Associate KitQuest earns from qualifying purchases.About this bookRight 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, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what it means to be black in America.