BGS - July Book Club

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We're starting a Book Club! Submit up to 3 suggestions, fiction or nonfiction, any genre, for the book we'll be reading in July. We'll announce which book we'll be reading on July 15th and meet sometime in August to discuss it.

I'll be picking this month's book, but someone else gets to pick next month, from any of the suggestions we've had so far or any future suggestions, just not one of your own suggestions.

So this month's book will be the Man-Booker prize winning, The Sellout by Paul Beatty (https://www.amazon.com/Sellout-Novel-Paul-Beatty/dp/1250083257).
https://www.amazon.com/Sellout-Novel-Paul-Beatty/dp/1250083257

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There are lots of very cheap used copies on Amazon, and it's probably available at lots of local bookstores. So get your copy today! We'll be meeting to discuss it on August 20th at a location I'll announce closer to the date.

Here are some reviews...

“The first 100 pages of [Paul Beatty's] new novel, The Sellout, are the most caustic and the most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read in at least a decade. I gave up underlining the killer bits because my arm began to hurt . . . [They] read like the most concussive monologues and interviews of Chris Rock, Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle wrapped in a satirical yet surprisingly delicate literary and historical sensibility . . . The jokes come up through your spleen . . . The riffs don't stop coming in this landmark and deeply aware comic novel . . . [It] puts you down in a place that's miles from where it picked you up.” ―Dwight Garner, The New York Times

“[The Sellout] is among the most important and difficult American novels written in the 21st century . . . It is a bruising novel that readers will likely never forget.” ―Kiese Laymon, Los Angeles Times

“Swiftian satire of the highest order . . . Giddy, scathing and dazzling.” ―Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

“The Sellout isn't just one of the most hilarious American novels in years, it also might be the first truly great satirical novel of the century . . . [It] is a comic masterpiece, but it's much more than just that-it's one of the smartest and most honest reflections on race and identity in America in a very long time.” ―Michael Schaub, NPR.org

“Beatty, author of the deservedly highly praised The White Boy Shuffle (1996), here outdoes himself and possibly everybody else in a send-up of race, popular culture, and politics in today's America . . . Beatty hits on all cylinders in a darkly funny, dead-on-target, elegantly written satire . . . [The Sellout] is frequently laugh-out-loud funny and, in the way of the great ones, profoundly thought provoking. A major contribution.” ―Mark Levin, Booklist (starred review)

Excelsior!