![]() ![]() Halfway through the book, as our hero struggles to save Dickens, he searches for a sister city to give the town some legitimacy: It’s devoted to deconstructing the myth of racial equality in America, and what it finds would be heartbreaking if The Sellout weren’t simultaneously so funny. The Sellout is a satire, and it has fangs. He devotes himself to saving Dickens, but in the end his efforts land him in front of the Supreme Court for attempting to restore slavery and segregation. It’s about a young black man who finds that his city, Dickens, has been taken off the map in South California, incorporated into greater Los Angeles. The Sellout, for which Paul Beatty just became the first American writer ever to win the Booker Prize, is both blisteringly funny and blisteringly furious. ![]()
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