Book Review: Erasure by Percival Everett
7/10 Erasure is a sharp novel about a Black academic and writer whose frustration about the commercial failure of his cerebral novels, and the publishing world’s hunger for “authentic” Black trauma narratives, leads him to pena satirical parody (“My Pafology”) under a pseudonym which, to his horror, becomes a runaway hit. The book is both a skewering of the literary industry and a meditation on identity, family, and artistic compromise. ...