
Erasure
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Sean Crisden
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By:
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Percival Everett
Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now as the Oscar-nominated film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross.
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies—his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer's, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father's suicide seven years before.
In his rage and despair, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of Juanita Mae Jenkins's bestseller. He doesn't intend for My Pafology to be published, let alone taken seriously, but it is—under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh—and soon it becomes the Next Big Thing. How Monk deals with the personal and professional fallout galvanizes this audacious, hysterical, and quietly devastating novel.
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Great performance of a great book
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Authentic Storytelling
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Didn’t see the movie… loved the book!
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I liked this book very much!!
The Parody itself…
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A masterpiece
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The wicked wit and humor, great irony !
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Good but
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Satire at its best
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This is a story that is bound to hold relevance as long as US Mainstream Publishing exists, and authors who happen to be Black may always find themselves in a position that will be relatable to that of the Thelonious Monk Ellison.
A master class from a true literary master.
Amazing Narrator, Awesome Story
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Must Listen!
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