Starting the Conversation: Adult Fiction

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1. The sellout

Book cover for "The sellout"
Star rating for The sellout
Author:
Beatty, Paul
Average Rating:
3 stars
Formats:
Book, Audiobook
Description:
"A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court"-- "Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single...