![]() ![]() In his efforts to bring Dickens back, our narrator gets his own slave and decides to reintroduce segregation. So crime-ridden an embarrassment is Dickens that the powers that be decide to literally remove it from the map and pretend it no longer exists. The United States of America) is a lifelong resident of Dickens, an agrarian ghetto of Los Angeles with a largely minority population. ![]() Our narrator, known by his neighbourhood nickname of Bonbon, of called The Sellout by others, or his last name Me (as in Me vs. ![]() I want to say it’s timely, given the recent and ongoing racial tensions in the USA, but unfortunately those tensions are not exactly new. The Sellout is satirical, uncomfortable, entertaining, eye-opening, and sometimes confusing. Once I heard a little more about his style, I was eager to read The Sellout and it happily did not disappoint. I wasn’t familiar with Paul Beatty’s work before this past year when he became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize. The Sellout – Paul Beatty (Picador, 2015) ![]()
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