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Paul Beatty's Uncomfortable Race Novel

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In a blistering satire wherein segregation is reintroduced in a small California town, novelist Paul Beatty takes aim at just about everyone in America.

Nathaniel Rich
Nathaniel Rich
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Nathaniel Rich

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