
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
Dark comedy · Satire
The need to appear cultured, successful or respectable gives literary comedy plenty to question. Irreverence finds humor in refusing the expected deference, allowing a character or narrator to notice what polite company would prefer to leave alone.
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