Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize. A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing
and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court The Sellout showcases a comic genius at
the top of his game. Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles the narrator of
The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological
studies. He is told that his father's work will lead to a memoir that will solve their
financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting he discovers there never
was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through funeral. What's more Dickens has
literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by
despair the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable:
reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school which lands him in the Supreme
Court. In his trademark absurdist style which has the uncanny ability to make readers want to
both laugh and cry The Sellout is an outrageous and outrageously entertaining indictment of
our time.
