A review by mrjess_bhs
American Hunger by Richard Wright

4.0

Obviously this is best with the context of Black Boy, as Wright originally intended, but it also stand on its own as an interesting look into civil unrest and communist activity in the US around the depression era. It is sad to hear how people with a unified aim can end up causing so much distrust and division, and that doesn’t even bring in all the chaos the FBI and others throw in to it. Ego and coerced conformity will never be the path to liberation.