In the canon
Notes of a Native Son
- Form
- Form Essay
- Year
- Year 1955
- Pages
- Pages 150
An essayist buries his preacher father on the day of a Harlem riot, and writes his way through rage, race and family toward the terms on which an American son can live.
On the 29th of July, in 1943, my father died. On the same day, a few hours later, his last child was born.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.