Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and writing,
available again in paperback
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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