
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
by Christina
Fiction – Kindle edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. 305 pgs. Purchased. Beatty’s novel opens with the unnamed narrator – we later learn he is known as Bonbon – arriving at the United States Supreme Court for his case, Me vs United States. The case alleges that the narrator has violated a number of tenants of the United States Constitution, including the Thirteenth Amendment banning the practice of slavery within the country. Through his ambulance-chasing lawyer, the narrator-turned-defendant plans to […]
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