{"product_id":"the-sellout-9781250808240","title":"The Sellout","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed one of the best books of 2015 by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's \u003ci\u003eThe Sellout \u003c\/i\u003eshowcases 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in the agrarian ghetto of Dickens--on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles--the narrator of \u003ci\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/i\u003e 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 controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFuelled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town's most famous resident--the last surviving Little Rascal, Hominy Jenkins--he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Beatty, Paul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250808240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304","brand":"Paul Beatty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39401976070219,"sku":"9781250808240","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_e442003a-b447-4328-9a24-dea816696bf0.jpg?v=1623769636","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-sellout-9781250808240","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}