![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the professor of psychology is not busy using his son as a pawn in his research, he moonlights as the town’s ‘whisperer’, talking its suicidal members back into a cheerier vision of life and is also the respected host to the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals, which rallies over stale donuts and has heated conversations about the place of African-Americans in today’s America. The Sellout tells of the adventure of its African-American main protagonist – “Bonbon” for his on-off girlfriend and acquaintances, “Sellout” for some members of his community not approving of his life choices – or “Me”, which is his last name, for the state of California that is suing him at the time of the book’s opening.īonbon grows up in Dickens, a ghetto on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the subject of his father’s social experiments. ![]()
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