After the protagonist of this novel comes home from work, he argues with his mother over whether he returned before or after two in the morning. In this novel, a lawyer gives 
After the protagonist of this novel comes home from work, he argues with his mother over whether he returned before or after two in the morning. In this novel, a lawyer gives a man a wooden cross necklace, only for it to be thrown away when the man sees the Ku Klux Klan. A couple eats fried chicken at Charlie's Kitchen Shack to experience (*) black life in this novel, in which the protagonist forges a ransom note with the signature "Reds". Boris A. Max defends this novel's protagonist, who kills a rat with a skillet in its opening scene. This novel's protagonist kills Jan Erlone's girlfriend Mary Dalton by suffocating her with a pillow. FTP, name this novel about Bigger Thomas, written by Richard Wright. 