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I have to say that this was a great book. I could not put it down. It's a story about a black man named Bigger Thomas (set in Chicago, 1930s) who accidentally killed his employer's young (white) daughter, and he decided to hide the evidence by placing her body into her family's furnace. Bigger never intended to asphyxiate his employer's daughter. It happened quickly as her blind mother entered her bedroom, asking for her daughter questions. But Bigger didn't want her mother to know that her daug
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Not sure why I originally rated this book a three. The story has stuck with me for years.
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