Erasure

Percival Everett · 2001 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison, a Black experimental novelist whom publishers find unmarketable, writes a lurid ghetto novel under a pseudonym as a joke and watches it become a sensation. Everett's satire of the book trade's racial expectations includes the offending novel in full.

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