CxD Book Club #6: The Sellout
August 14th, 5pm CST
Noble CxD Friends and Patrons,
CxD Book club just finished the magnum ops from Poland’s Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob, and the peanut gallery suggested we try something a bit shorter this go-around, and maybe not as focused on a delusional Messiahnic figure.
America is a troubled place regarding race relations so I thought reading a book focused on the topic in the US, hailed as a comic masterpiece, writtten by an African-American author, Paul Beatty, would be just the thing for our next book club gathering.
Get your copy and join us! We’re good people with lots of Character.
Schedule for The Sellout:
📆 August 14th, 5pm CST (Texas time) pages 1-150
📆 September 11th, 5pm CST 151- Finish
Location: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3181979696
“The first 100 pages of [Paul Beatty's] new novel, The Sellout, are the most caustic and the most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read in at least a decade.” ―Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“[The Sellout] is among the most important and difficult American novels written in the 21st century . . . It is a bruising novel that readers will likely never forget.” ―Kiese Laymon, Los Angeles Times
“The Sellout isn't just one of the most hilarious American novels in years, it also might be the first truly great satirical novel of the century . . . [It] is a comic masterpiece, but it's much more than just that-it's one of the smartest and most honest reflections on race and identity in America in a very long time.” ―Michael Schaub, NPR.org
❤️,
Krzysztof