The Sellout

[Becky Lindroos]

Yes!   

Fwiw,    *Beatty mixes the factual and the fanciful. The town name is made up (sly nods to the actual founder of Compton, Griffith Dickenson Compton, and to the father of social realist novels, Charles Dickens), and the setting may sound surreal, but in fact, Dickens is based on an actual Los Angeles area: Richland Farms, straight inside Compton. Yes, in the area made famous by Niggaz With Attitude and Kendrick Lamar — the town known worldwide as the home of gangs and gangsta rap — there are horses, goats, corn, and chickens. There really is a rodeo in Compton. Paul didn’t make that up.*  
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dont-call-paul-beatty-the-sellout-a-ghetto-pastoral/


And Richland Farms -  Straight Outta’ Compton:   
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/03/134981907/straight-outta-compton-on-horseback

Becky 
https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com
https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com/012017-2/the-sellout-by-paul-beatty/

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> Equal parts brilliant and insidious...
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