{"product_id":"sellout","title":"Sellout","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the Man Booker Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed one of the best books of by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sellout \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in the \"agrarian ghetto\" of Dickens―on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles―the narrator of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50120200028445,"sku":"9781250808240","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781250808240.jpg?v=1751399874","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/sellout","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}