Paul Beatty Wins 2016 Man Booker Prize

American author Paul Beatty has won the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Sellout. In a starred review Publishers Weekly called the novel a "droll, biting look at racism in modern America," and selected it as one of its Best Books of 2015.

The novel follows the story of Bonbon Me, a black farmer living in a rundown part of Los Angeles County, who is being tried in the Supreme Court over his attempt to reinstitute slavery and segregation in the local high school.