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Invisible Man: Chapters 17-19

"If you get too big they will cut you down."

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Jeremy Anderberg
Mar 16, 2025
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Harlem in the 1950s

Hello readers!

As we move into the final third of the book, it continues to disorient and amaze me in near equal measure. There are chapters where I feel like I “get” it (at least a little bit), and then some chapters that leave me scratching my head a bit. The total effect, though, is a rather memorable one. There is no way some of t…

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