But it wasn't until this brash, hilarious, deeply satirical, profoundly American novel became the first work by an American author to win the Man Booker Prize that a wider audience myself included finally sat up and took notice. Sure, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction that year, and it turned up on more than one year-end "best of" list. Paul Beatty's The Sellout was one of those books that flew somewhat under the radar when it was originally published in 2015. A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court.
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