Invisible Man is by Ralph Ellison. The classic multi-cultural historical fiction novel of a young black man's transition from college to life in New York City. The unnamed narrator discovers his life is not going to turn out as he planned. He was raised in the South, attended a Negro college believing he would become a teacher there - only to find himself expelled. He believes he is sent to New York to find a job with letters of recommendation, only to find he has been deceived. He becomes the spokesman in Harlem for a radical group called "The Brotherhood," only to retreat into the darkness where he becomes the invisible man he believes himself to be. A strange, yet powerful novel of the African American experience.
Ratings: 11th grade - 8 out of 10 - P (profanity) - AC (mature thematic content).
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