Erasure - Percival Everett
Category: Humor
Tags: Humor, Adults, Literature
Percival Everetts 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 Ellisons 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 Wes 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 tragedieshis aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimers, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his fathers suicide seven years before., In his rage and despair, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of Juanita Mae Jenkinss bestseller. He doesnt intend for My Pafology to be published, let alone taken seriously, but it is
