Sellout

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction. Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Denver Post, BuzzFeed, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly. Named a "MustRead" by Flavorwire and New York Magazine's "Vulture" Blog. A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases 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 fatherson relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality―the black Chinese restaurant. 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 shootout, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drivethru funeral.