The Sellout
by Paul Beatty · 2015
Literary Fiction · ranked #189 in category
Winner · The Booker Prize, 2016
A young Black farmer in a fictional suburb of Los Angeles is taken to the Supreme Court for reinstating slavery and segregation in his town — and somehow his actions have made his community happier. Beatty's Booker Prize-winning novel is a savage, absurdist satire of race in America that doesn't spare anyone: not the oppressors, not the activists, not the Supreme Court, not the narrator himself.
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