This is an early novel from the eventual Booker Prize winner Paul Beatty. Paul Beatty’s win for The Sellout a few years ago was certainly a surprise. The layers of irony and reversal happening in that novel and the ways in which the novel requires a certain experience with American life meant it felt like a very unlikely winner. This novel is probably even more unlikely. What’s funny about this book to me is that I have worked in two high schools that had this in the […]
On one hand, this messiah gig is a b****.
The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty