The Confessions of Nat Turner

Leave it to Styron to write a first-person perspective narrative of a black slave. If you want to revisit the offensive stereotype of a black man constantly fantasizing about sexually assaulting innocent white women, then go ahead and read it. I have no idea why this book won a Pulitzer.

Styron did not do his homework and his almost apologetic, almost heroic depiction of a mass murderer is, at times, indefensible. Also, this XIX century slave writes and thinks very much in line with what we'd expect from a XX century educated man.

Still, happy to have read it.