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Audie Prize Finalist, Fiction, 2016 A biting satire in regards to a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Courtroom, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius near the top of his game. It troubles the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights activity, the father-son relationship, and the ultimate goal of racial equality: the dark Chinese restaurant. Blessed in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of LA - the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the destiny of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd expire in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, finding out about at the splits in the stucco ceiling that've been there since the '68 quake." Raised by an individual father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the topic in racially recharged psychological studies. He is led to believe his father's pioneering work will lead to a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is wiped out in a authorities shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's remaining is the invoice for a drive-thru funeral. Fuelled by this deceit and the overall disrepair of his hometown, the narrator packages out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been taken off the map to save lots of California from further humiliation. Enlisting the assistance of the town's most well-known citizen - the previous 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 Courtroom.
