Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction.

Introduced by Brandon Taylor - Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life - Erasure is an unforgettable, satirical but tender novel about race and cultural expectations in contemporary America.

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 . . . ?