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SUMMARY:Best of the Best Book Club: The Sellout
DESCRIPTION:The Coronado Public Library’s Best of the Best Book Club meets regularly on the fourth Wednesday of each month to discuss books that have won major awards. Receive reminder emails about our meeting by registering below. Registration is not required. \nFor our October meeting\, we will discuss the 2016 Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout by Paul Beatty\, a biting satire that challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution\, urban life\, the civil rights movement\, the father-son relationship\, and the holy grail of racial equality―the black Chinese restaurant. \nPlace this title on hold via our online catalog\, or check out the e-book through the CloudLibrary app. \n\nAbout The Sellout \nBorn in the “agrarian ghetto” of Dickens―on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles―the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: “I’d die in the same bedroom I’d grown up in\, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that’ve been there since ’68 quake.” Raised by a single father\, a controversial sociologist\, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father’s pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family’s financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out\, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that’s left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. \nFueled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown\, the narrator sets out to right another wrong: Dickens has literally been removed from the map to save California from further embarrassment. Enlisting the help of the town’s most famous resident―the last surviving Little Rascal\, Hominy Jenkins―he initiates the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school\, which lands him in the Supreme Court.
URL:https://coronadotimes.com/event/best-of-the-best-book-club-the-sellout/
LOCATION:Coronado Public Library\, 640 Orange Ave\, Coronado\, CA\, 92118\, United States
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