The Sellout

Sobre el libro The Sellout de Paul Beatty publicado por Picador al 2016:

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.Fuelled 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...