Sellout

In this biting satire, a young man from an isolated upbringing lands in a race trial that reaches the Supreme Court. Paul Beatty challenges the sacred tenets of the US Constitution, civil rights, and racial equality with a comical take on urban life and the father-son relationship. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of southern LA, the narrator resigns himself to a lower-middle-class life until his father's death leads him on to an audacious quest to reinstate slavery and segregate a local high school, eventually landing him in the Supreme Court. A hilarious, shocking and thought-provoking read.