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.

"One of the most original and forceful novels to have emerged from America in recent years." --TLS

"The keen intelligence behind Erasure is visible in every page. The bizarrely compelling parody at the book's heart shows how verisimilitude can be faked." --David Horspool, Sunday Times