\'Truly brilliant.\' Los Angeles Review of Books\'A classic.\' The Times\'A remarkable novel.\' Wall Street Journal** With a new foreword by Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life and Filthy Animals **With your book sales at an all-time low, your family falling apart, and your agent telling you you\'re not black enough, what\'s an author to do? Thelonius \'Monk\' Ellison has the answer.
Everett is a first-rate word wrangler.\' Nicholas Lezard , Guardian. . .
This novel is Everett at his finest, full of trademark protest, humanity and incisive humour, all wrapped up in one hell of a story.\' Courttia Newland\'Hilarious. and rage, and sorrow, and affinity.\' Lisa McInerney\'Seminal doesn\'t even come close. . .
It made me howl with laughter . ?Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction\'One of the most original and forceful novels to have emerged from America in years.\' TLS\'A furious whirl of a book. . .
Or does he . \'Truly brilliant.\' Los Angeles Review of Books\'A classic.\' The Times\'A remarkable novel.\' Wall Street Journal** With a new foreword by Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life and Filthy Animals **With your book sales at an all-time low, your family falling apart, and your agent telling you you\'re not black enough, what\'s an author to do? Thelonius \'Monk\' Ellison has the answer
