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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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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2015 · 2010s
Author
Paul Beatty
Standing
Essential Read

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