Ralph Ellison’s monumental novel Invisible Man is a picaresque coming-of-age story. Our unnamed narrator grows up in the American South between the World Wars. After a series of incidents gets him a scholarship to—and then expelled from—college, he travels to New York City. There, in the bustling, anonymous city, he realizes he has been invisible all along—which is to say, that no one seems to be able to see him for him. Suzanne and Chris explore this powerfully written book, and how sight, sound, and taste can connect its narrator, even as the city isolates him.