The Sellout

Winner of the Man Booker Prize
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction
Named one of the best books of by TheNew York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal

A 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." Raised by a single father, a controver