Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The Sellout (book)

The Sellout is a 2015 novel by Paul Beatty published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  The novel takes place in and around Los Angeles and concerns a protagonist who grows artisanal marijuana and watermelons. Beatty has stated his motivation for writing the novel was that "[he] was broke".


In October 2016, it won the 2016 Man Booker Prize.

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