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Recently finished The Sellout by Paul Beatty. This is the 2016 Man Booker prizewinner, and the first time an American has won the award since the entries were opened up to writers of any nationality three years ago.
A tour de force, superbly well written, and an eye opener to someone like me in terms of understanding what living with racism day-to-day is really like. It's easy to intellectualise what it must be like, how horrible, but somehow I always felt that once you got home, behind your own front door so to speak, you could forget it for a while and feel safe. I don't think that any more. Written with great humour and feeling, a worthy winner.
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