Backlist Book Club: Erasure

Sun Aug 18 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm UTC-04:00

2122 Scott St., Lafayette, IN, United States, Indiana 47904 | Lafayette

Second Flight Books
Publisher/HostSecond Flight Books
Backlist Book Club: Erasure
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Join us for our monthly book club discussion! All are welcome as we discuss Erasure by Percival Everett. You do not need to register, simply show up to chat about the book (be okay with spoilers if you haven't finished!).
About the Book:
Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and an African American, he is offended and angered by the success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, the exploitative debut novel of a young, middle-class black woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Hailed as an authentic representation of the African American experience, the book is a national bestseller and its author feted on the Kenya Dunston television show. The book's success rankles all the more as Monk's own most recent novel has just notched its seventh rejection.
Even as his career as a writer appears to have stalled, Monk finds himself coping with changes in his personal life. In need of distraction from old memories, new responsibilities, and his professional stagnation, Monk composes, in a heat of inspiration and energy, a fierce parody of the sort of exploitative, ghetto wanna-be lit represented by We's Lives in Da Ghetto.
But when his agent sends this literary indictment (included here in its entirety) out to publishers, it is greeted as an authentic new voice of black America. Monk -- or his pseudonymous alter ego, Stagg R. Leigh -- is offered money, fame, success beyond anything he has known. And as demand begins to build for meetings with and appearances by Leigh, Monk is faced with a whole new set of problems.
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