pickPartially really powerful, partially just curiously strange. The police brutality that opens this novel is intense enough that it was rejected for publication in 1942. And it knocks our main character into a very different state of mind for the rest of the book. A short story version was published in 1944 (I think that‘s the image above.). The full novel was only published in 2021.
My thoughts are with 🇮🇱 But, I‘m trying to get myself into this posthumously punished and so far very interesting work, which touches deeply on police brutality. (The novel was only published in 2021. A shorter version was included in Eight Men, a story collection published shortly after Wright‘s passing.)
pickFred is a black man wrongly accused of murdering the neighbors of his employers and abused by police to try to obtain a confession. He manages to escape their custody and ends up in the sewers, where he suddenly has a window into some otherwise inaccessible spaces in a somewhat fantastical way. There is one choice he makes that I don‘t understand, but overall this is really well done and was a very engaging read.
pickThis was a wonderful story that holds a mirror up to show how the past impacts and reflects the future of what black.people.have been dealing with since time immoral. Loved the narrator. Pushed through a lot of parts that made me uncomfortable. Because it's important to be uncomfortable when hearing stories of injustice.
#TeamSleighers #WinterGames Impulse read 10pts
I got some.swaps today #LitsyLoveWinterSwap #BO21 Thank you I am looking forward to opening these packages soon. My boxes will go out this weekend now that I have everything. #BestOf2021
Turned out to be a fitting publication day.
The Man Who Lived Underground | 
so-so
