Did you laugh or cry (or both) at the experiments run by F. The United States of America, how would you rule? What does Hampton Fiske, the narrator's attorney ('Don't say shit! Don't run! Don't resist arrest!'), ultimately prove about America's attempts to legislate life?Ģ.

If you were a Supreme Court justice hearing the case of Me v. 'Beatty, author of the deservedly highly praised The White Boy Shuffle (1996), here outdoes himself and possibly everybody else in a send-up of race, popularġ. is a comic masterpiece, but it's much more than just that-it's one of the smartest and most honest reflections on race and identity in America in a very long time.' 'Michael Schaub, NPR.org 'The Sellout isn't just one of the most hilarious American novels in years, it also might be the first truly great satirical novel of the century. Giddy, scathing and dazzling.' 'Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal It is a bruising novel that readers will likely never forget.' 'Kiese Laymon, Los Angeles Times ' is among the most important and difficult American novels written in the 21st century. puts you down in a place that's miles from where it picked you up.' 'Dwight Garner, The New York Times The riffs don't stop coming in this landmark and deeply aware comic novel. read like the most concussive monologues and interviews of Chris Rock, Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle wrapped in a satirical yet surprisingly delicate literary and historical sensibility. I gave up underlining the killer bits because my arm began to hurt. Praise For This Book:'The first 100 pages of new novel, The Sellout, are the most caustic and the most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read in at least a decade.

The sellout book