Hell of a Book

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 One of Entertainment Weekly's 15 Books you Need to Read This June One of The NY Post's Best Summer Reading books One of GMA's 27 Books for June  One of USA Today's 5 Books Not to Miss  One of Fortune's 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming out in the Second Half of 2021  One of The Root's PageTurners: It's Getting Hot in Here
 
 An astounding work of fiction from a New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, always deeply honest, at times electrically funny, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole 
 In Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott's novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. 
 As these characters' stories build and build and converge, they astonish. For while this heartbreaking and magical book entertains and is at once about family, love of parents and children, art and money, it's also about the nation's reckoning with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America. 
 Who has been killed? Who is The Kid? Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind? Unforgettably told, with characters who burn into your mind and an electrifying plot ideal for book club discussion, Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has been writing in his head for the last ten years. And in its final twists it truly becomes its title.

Author: Jason Mott
Publisher: Random House Large Print Publishing
Published: 07/27/2021
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.18w x 1.11d
ISBN: 9780593414279
Large Print
About the Author
Jason Mott has published three previous novels. His first novel, The Returned, was a New York Times bestseller and was turned into a TV series that ran for two seasons. He has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His poetry and fiction have appeared in various literary journals.