Erasure: now a major motion picture 'American Fiction'

'Truly brilliant.' Los Angeles Review of Books

'A classic.' The Times

'A remarkable novel.' Wall Street Journal

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.

Or does he . . . ?

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction

Percival Everett is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of thirty books, including The Water Cure, Wounded and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. Erasure won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction.