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Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review; The New Yorker; The Wall Street Journal; The Boston Globe; Buzzfeed: The Huffington Post; The New York Times; Mens Journal; Newsweek; NPR; and Publishers WeeklyA 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 father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality -- the black Chinese restaurant.Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens -- on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles -- the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class 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.



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Paul Beatty

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 JournalPaul Beatty is the author of three novels -- Slumberland, Tuff, and The White Boy Shuffle -- and two books of poetry: Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce. He is the editor of Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor. He lives in New York City. Author Photo - Beatty, Paul (c) Hannah Assouline



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