Join us for our regular lunchtime book dis cussion Erasure by Percival Everett. Some physical copies are available. I f you would like a copy from the book club bag\, email \;Becky \;to request the book. Or you c an request a copy with your library card via our online catalog: \;physical book\, \;e-book\, and \;e-audiobook via \;Overdr ive \;and \;Hoopla.
\nRegister and you'll get an email with instructions on how to participate via Zoom.
\nAbout the book
\nPercival Everett's blistering satire abou t race and writing.
\nThelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publis hers\, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "cr itically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establish ment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto\, a fir st novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a coupl e 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.
\nIn his rage and despair\, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of J uanita Mae Jenkins's bestseller. He doesn't intend for My Pafology to be p ublished\, 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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