This. It‘s like such a crystalline picture. Richard Wright has this way of making himself a regular person in the completely insane, oppressive violent world of the 1920‘s Jim Crowe South. It‘s dystopian, and nonfictional. His response, his strength, but also his tone - it‘s like “What are these people thinking?!…Is this real?” - is incredibly powerful. It‘s an amazing window into that reality, our history.