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 8212 the black Chinese restaurant.Born in the agrarian ghettoof Dickens 8212 on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles 8212 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 controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies.

Winner of the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionWinner of the John Dos Passos Prize for LiteratureiNew York Timesi BestselleriLos Angeles Timesi Bestseller Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by iThei iNew York Times Book ReviewiNamed a Best Book of the Year by iNewsweeki, iThe Denver Posti, iBuzzFeedi, iKirkus Reviewsi, and iPublishers WeeklyiNamed a Must-Readby iFlavorwirei and iNew Yorki Magazine's VultureBlogA 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.

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