Is Macon following a hero's journey (regardless of whether or not he is a hero)?

I honestly don't know what to think at the end of Angry Black White Boy. The ending left my mouth hanging. While the book prompted a lot of discussion about race and made me want to voice my opinions, the end left me relatively speechless and confused about Macon Detornay. The ending of the book is way more dramatic than I had expected. It follows the classic heroic paradigm both closely and completely differently and I can't really tell if it is mocking a hero's journey or not. At the end of the novel, Macon goes through the supreme ordeal, he goes through the resentment felt towards the hero that is often found in extremely dramatic heroic narratives, he goes through the whole at-gunpoint choice. At the same time however, the book is so extreme, so unrealistic and bubbling with emotion and violence that it feels like a mockery of the heroic narrative, especially with Macon dying at the end. The fact that Macon dies is huge part of the ending, and is strange for a heroic narrative arc. Adam Mansbach even ends it somewhat sarcastically with, "...and Macon joined his ancestors." As soon as I read that line, I was struck by the sarcasm that Macon could be so different from his roots but he the author phrases his death like that.

Throughout the last chapter, the alternating feeling between sarcasm and Macon's idea of himself as a hero and the feeling of sympathy and distraught contributes to my confusion about the author's perspective on the heroic narrative arc of this novel. As we've seen throughout the novel, the physical events that take place can make us sympathetic for Macon and his allies, but when we see how self-absorbed Macon is in his idea of a hero, and his idea that he is his only hero, I cringe away from Macon's internal attitude. The other thing messing me up about Macon's heroic journey is that everything is out of place. Macon becomes a celebrity really quickly; usually something reserved for the hero's return home. His major refusal of the quest/big tragedy (though he does protest at interviews originally) comes later when he flees the riot scene. And of course, Macon dies in the end without having been re-united with most of his allies or without the audience seeing some sort of peace with the state of the country. Also, unlike many heroic narratives, nothing is explained, and the Doctor "acting" situation took me really by surprise. Like Macon, the "hero's journey" in this novel is all over the place and contradictory at times, but also thought-provoking and definitely emotional.