Review: The Sellout by Paul Beatty

“Being black ain't what it used to be.”

Winning the Booker Prize isn’t always a sign of a book’s quality but it always ensures a dramatic spike in sales. Paul Beatty’s brilliant satire of Blackness in a small Los Angeles suburb would probably have passed most British readers by had it not been given the prestigious award recently. And what a pity that would have been because The Sellout is one of the funniest books, one of the most sophisticated and satisfying comedies I have read in a very l...