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Erasure : a Novel by Percival Everett; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Adapted as the feature film American Fiction (2023), written & directed by Cord Jefferson & starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Leslie Uggams, Myra Lucretia Taylor, & Sterling K. Brown °°° Percival Everett's Erasure is a blistering satire about race & writing Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies—his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer's, & he still grapples with the reverberations of his father's suicide seven years before. In his rage & despair, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of Juanita Mae Jenkins's bestseller. He doesn't intend for My Pafology to be published, 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 & profe

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Author

Percival Everett; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555970390

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Social Science, Humor

Rating

4.16 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14