The Sellout: A Novel by Paul Beatty: Conversation Starters

The Sellout: A Novel by Paul Beatty | Conversation Starters


The award-winning book by Ta-Nehisi Coates entitled Between the World and Me, published in 2015, is authored as a series of essays in the form letters to his son. The book exposed the foundation of America's culture as it is connected to the slavery and death of its darker behalf. Between the World and Me provides a timeline of events starting with the author's time at Howard University up until the time of the Civil War. Coates sums up the gruesome history of servitude of the black race. 


A Brief Look Inside:


EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER

than the surface of its pages. The characters and its world come alive, 

and even after the last page of the book is closed,

the story still lives on, inciting questions and curiosity.

Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to

bring us beneath the surface of the page

and invite us into this world that continues to lives on. 


These questions can be used to…


Create Hours of Conversation:


•Foster a deeper understanding of the book

•Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups

•Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately

•Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before