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Slumberland
Slumberland: A Novel | Paul Beatty
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Critical darling Paul Beatty's highly original, widely praised novel of race, identity, and underground music. After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little know avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city's dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods , the prevent defense, and Wynton Marsalis in search of his artistic-and spiritual-other. Ferocious, bombastic, and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is vintage Paul Beatty and belongs on the shelf next to Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead, and Junot Diaz.
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alexa_d
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I'm CRYING 🤣😂🤣

(This book takes place in Berlin, FYI)

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alexa_d
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You will never convince me that Paul Beatty doesn't read Discworld.

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alexa_d
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This book, you guys. THIS. BOOK.

(I love Paul Robeson, and he deserved so much better than he got from this country. But he was a black man who was better at everything than everyone else in the pre-Civil Rights USA and a Communist through both Red Scares so it's just remarkable he even survived past 35, never mind past 70.) #BlackAuthors #BlackHistoryMonth

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alexa_d
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I got barely a page into this book and thought, "if it goes on like this, I may have a new favorite book." I am a goddamn sucker for book-long shitposts like this. As long as it doesn't have much of a plot, this is going to be fantastic. (Alternatively, it can have too many plots that come together seamlessly at the end like A Confederacy of Dunces or every Wodehouse novel, and that is ALSO my jam.) #BlackAuthors #BlackHistoryMonth

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Pamwurtzler
Slumberland: A Novel | Paul Beatty
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I liked this - at times it was a little out there, and I‘d have to reread a couple pages, thinking “wait, what?”. Its about race, sex, and music in recently unified Berlin. #MountTBRChallenge #26
Also, @drbethandherkindle , I did not find a printed copy of this in your room, but did find a lot of books that I‘d forgotten we had. It‘s like unexpected treasure!

drbethandherkindle Okay, this is clearly not the book I thought it was 7y
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Pamwurtzler
Slumberland: A Novel | Paul Beatty
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I‘m starting this because it‘s been a while since I read anything for #MountTBRChallenge. Has anyone read this?

drbethandherkindle Don‘t you have this in dead tree form? I think Grandpa lent it to you years ago 7y
Pamwurtzler @drbethandherkindle Maybe?? You‘ve read this - how did you read it? 7y
drbethandherkindle I think grandpa gave it to us! 7y
drbethandherkindle Go look on the shelves in my bedroom 7y
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