“Paul Beatty wrote a book, The Sellout, which is about slavery coming back. And that is not a funny subject, but he makes it really funny.”
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The Sellout
Paul Beatty · 2015
A satirical novel about contemporary race relations and the resurgence of slavery.
Andrew Sean Greer values how the author turns the heavy subject of slavery into something genuinely funny.
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