{"product_id":"sellout","title":"Sellout","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Man Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed one of the best books of by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's \u003ci\u003eThe Sellout \u003c\/i\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in the \"agrarian ghetto\" of Dickens--on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles--the narrator of \u003ci\u003eThe Sellout\u003c\/i\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049129328876,"sku":"9781250808240","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/2987\/3644\/files\/imageloader_25372279-d598-4e20-9685-ead84ae57da6.jpg?v=1764624240","url":"https:\/\/www.gladysbooksandwine.com\/products\/sellout","provider":"Gladys Books \u0026 Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}