Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens, on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout is raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. When his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, all that’s left is a bill for a drive-through funeral. What’s more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court. Man Booker Prize winner 2016.
