The Sellout: A Novel,New

Winner Of The 2016 Man Booker Prizewinner Of The 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award In Fictionnamed One Of The Best Books Of 2015 By The New York Times Book Review And The Wall Street Journala Biting Satire About A Young Man'S Isolated Upbringing And The Race Trial That Sends Him To The Supreme Court, Paul Beatty'S The Sellout Showcases A Comic Genius At The Top Of His Game. It Challenges The Sacred Tenets Of The United States Constitution, Urban Life, The Civil Rights Movement, The Fatherson Relationship, And The Holy Grail Of Racial Equalitythe Black Chinese Restaurant.Born In The 'Agrarian Ghetto' Of Dickenson The Southern Outskirts Of Los Angelesthe Narrator Of The Sellout Resigns Himself To The Fate Of Lowermiddleclass Californians: 'I'D Die In The Same Bedroom I'D Grown Up In, Looking Up At The Cracks In The Stucco Ceiling That'Ve Been There Since '68 Quake.' Raised By A Single Father, A Controversial Sociologist, He Spent His Childhood As The Subject In Racially Charged Psychological Studies. He Is Led To Believe That His Father'S Pioneering Work Will Result In A Memoir That Will Solve His Family'S Financial Woes. But When His Father Is Killed In A Police Shootout, He Realizes There Never Was A Memoir. All That'S Left Is The Bill For A Drivethru Funeral.Fuelled By This Deceit And The General Disrepair Of His Hometown, The Narrator Sets Out To Right Another Wrong: Dickens Has Literally Been Removed From The Map To Save California From Further Embarrassment. Enlisting The Help Of The Town'S Most Famous Residentthe Last Surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkinshe Initiates The Most Outrageous Action Conceivable: Reinstating Slavery And Segregating The Local High School, Which Lands Him In The Supreme Court.