Book: The Sellout by Paul Beatty

Coming from a recommendation a long time ago, when this reached the top of my reading list, I expected to be entertained. It’s described as witty satire. It has to be as it’s about a black slave owner in the 21st century. We know that as it opens with the narrator, The Sellout, in the Supreme Court.

Actually it opens with a line of sarcasm which sets the tone for the Seellout. However, many references to American cultural history went over my head, such as the characters in The Sellout's Dickens neighbourhood in LA, who were former performers of the black-and-white show 'Young Rascals.'

The fact that I didn’t get most of the book and yet managed to read 289 pages proves how good this Booker prize-winning novel is.