![]() ![]() Most of all, though, the title is literal: Wright was seriously undernourished much of his life, even into adulthood. Wright wanted to call the book American Hunger, a resonant title that suggests not just the hunger that African Americans have felt to belong to their country but also the hunger with which America has devoured them. Amazing that Wright survived not just that errant moment but his childhood at all. In the first pages of his autobiography, Wright, a bored four-year-old, almost burns his grandmother’s house down, and the rest of the book is seldom less incendiary. ![]() Richard Wright, Black Boy (American Hunger) (1945/1991) ![]()
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