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Book One: Fear
Bigger Thomas lives in a cramped Chicago apartment with his family, trapped by poverty and the invisible walls of the South Side ghetto.
Book Two: Flight
Bigger tries to cover his tracks by framing Jan for Mary's disappearance and even attempts a ransom scheme, pretending Mary has been kidnapped.
Book Three: Fate
Bigger sits in jail awaiting trial. His communist lawyer Boris Max takes his case and tries to argue that Bigger is a product of American racism, not a monster.
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