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Literary Fiction · DarkA Black farmer in Los Angeles tries to bring back segregation to save his town
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
2015304 pagesModerate readFast pace
★ Booker Prize, 2016
A satire about race and a town that has vanished from the map
The narrator's town of Dickens has been removed from the map of California, so he sets out to put it back, partly by bringing back segregation. He ends up in front of the Supreme Court on charges tied to his plan. It won the 2016 Booker Prize, the first American winner, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
More about this book
Who
The narrator, a farmer, his father and Hominy Jenkins.
World
Dickens, a fictional neighbourhood in Los Angeles.
What makes it different
It was the first novel by an American author to win the Booker Prize.
Feel
Biting and comic.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The SelloutWikipedia