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Erasure

By Percival Everett
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By Percival Everett
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The basis for Cord Jefferson’s hilarious, Oscar nominated film, American Fiction, starring Jeffrey Wright (and co-written by Jefferson and Percival Everett). A biting satire that’s equally intellectually stimulating, this is a story of race in America and what it means to be Black. With sympathy and sarcasm, Everett creates an entirely real narrative about identity, community, ambition and so much more.

Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and writing, available again in paperback

Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for...

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