Paul Beatty

A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court....

The White Boy Shuffle is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to West Los Angeles where he undergoes a transformation....

After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little know avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin....

Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston "Tuffy" Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his idea, Cap'n Crunch: The Movie....

Born in Dickens, Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies....