Erasure is a novel by Percival Everett, in which the author heavily criticizes the commercialization of literary work. Instead, the novel calls for creating alternative American literature to defend east-cost literary activities. Specifically, as Everett discusses the commercialization of literary culture, as well as how it distorts the actual value of literary works. Consumption culture deteriorates the genuine purpose of the publishing business because books are published only when they are in high demand among the readers. Everett’s subjects focus on social observations of the life of African Americans, as well as how it is disruptive by the existing stereotypes on the life of the black community. The protagonist of the story is Thelonious Ellison, an intelligent and well-educated writer who makes up novels in a sophisticated manner so that only a few people can understand them. The protagonist, who is also called Monk, experiences serious hardships in their personal life and professional career because the community believes that he is not “black enough” to be an honorable member of the African-American community. The events in Ellison’s life are complicated because his father committed suicide, whereas his mother suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. Monk’s sister is murdered by the abortion protester, and his brother is homosexual, although he is married and has children. Ellison has nothing to do, but to leave his prosperous California life and look after his mother in a detached, solitary place, writing his dense novels. Hence, Monk’s life encounters both the crisis of both his family and his writing career. Further, in the novel, the heroes face a dilemma of searching for his another sister’s identity, a child of his father and his lover, a German woman with whom he acquainted in the 1950s. Therefore, most of Ellison’s work is dedicated to his family’s history, particularly to the moments when he recollects memories of his father. While describing his like, the hero provides a picture of the medium class of African Americans whose story is much more convincing as compared to other stereotypical narrations of the impoverished black community. Everett’s account on the black community is not false due to the genuine representation of facts. With partial reliance on the autobiographic event, the story acquires trustful meaning. The author does not adhere to the accepted conservative spirit that the U.S. community has got used to while hearing the story about African Americans. While deviating from the established views on the life of national minorities, the novel focuses on psychological realism, which is depicted through Monk’s family. The protagonist is enraged by the false depiction of the Black communities that do not entirely belong to a low-income class. There are families that originate from mid-class societies and that have noble professions. Hence, Monk’s indignation with the benignly racial attitudes to the African community grows as he notices the bestseller book We’s Lives in Da Ghetto by Juanita Mae Jenkins on the bookshelf. The novel exaggerates the tragedy of the life of the Harlem family; yet, it is highly recognized as a realistic interpretation of the reality. The racially discriminated regions have been described when Jenkins was a 12-year-old girl. To respond to the distorted portrayal of Afr