The Sellout: A Novel

Winner of the Man Booker Prize
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction
Named one of the best books of by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal

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 father-son relati...