Edward Canade’s Reviews > Black Boy > Status Update

Born in 1908, Richard Wright shares a dynamic memoir, richly and poetically written, of his life in the Deep South during the Jim Crow years. I've only read to where he is ten years old but already he has had so many remarkable events take place, that I find myself fully engrossed. Black Boy was mentioned in The Dead are Arising, a biography of Malcom X. I find it an excellent companion read. I'd recommend both.