Tuff Beatty Paul
Tuff Beatty Paul From the author of the 2016 Man Booker Prize winner 'The Sellout' comes a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays. His best friend is a disabled Muslim…
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Tuff Beatty Paul
From the author of the 2016 Man Booker Prize winner 'The Sellout' comes a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and his wife, Yolanda, he married from jail over the phone. Aged 19, weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston 'Tuffy' Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his movie idea, starring Danny DeVito.
Shrewedly comical as this dazzling novel is, it turns acerbically sublime when the frustrated Tuffy agrees to run for City Council...