Beatty’s protagonist paints a border around Dickens, distributes “No whites allowed” signs to the local businesses, and gets help from a local celebrity, Hominy Jenkins, who was an understudy to Buckwheat and the last surviving cast member of the 1920s and ’30s serial “The Little Rascals.” Paul Beatty’s satirical novel The Sellout, winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction (and now the 2016 Man Booker Prize), is a brutally funny-awful-sad-funny riff on racism in America, about an African American man who attempts to re-segregate his hometown - a fictional suburb of Los Angeles called Dickens. History is the things that stay with you.” It’s memory, and memory is time, emotions, and song. But history isn’t the paper it’s printed on. “That’s the problem with history, we like to think it’s a book-that we can turn the page and move the fuck on.
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