Black American current novelist. I found the book a bit hard to get into but eventually it carried me along. Beatty is basically looking at modern black America and critiquing self-created stereotypes, self-assigned social roles, and dropping his characters into roles that are not usually seen as "black". He gets his humour out of mixing up and poking fun at these stereotypes, self-created or otherwise.
His main focus here is black social intellectuals, with a very funny side on bringing back slavery...
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