With 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 but write a ghetto novel and call it Fuck?
At once a savage satire on contemporary American culture and a profoundly moving story of family turmoil, Erasure marked the UK debut of a unique American voice and was rightly hailed as one of the most startling novels of recent times.
I enjoyed this. It takes a satirical look at the crass exploitation that has become mainstream modern black fiction and the mockery that the literary press has become. It is also about complexities of a family. Despite the bite of Erasure's main theme, there's also some real heart in the story.
