Hell of a Book
Hell of a Book
By: Jason Mott
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ABOUT HELL OF A BOOK
***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER***
***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER***
Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing Shortlist, 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Shortlist, 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award Shortlist, 2022 Carnegie Medal Longlist
A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
An Ebony Magazine Publishing Book Club Pick!
One of Washington Postâs 50 Notable Works of Fiction | One of Philadelphia Inquirerâs Best Books of 2021 | One of Shelf Awarenessâs Top Ten Fiction Titles of the Year | One of TIME Magazineâs 100 Must-Read Books | One of NPR.orgâs âBooks We Loveâ | EWâs âGuide to the Biggest and Buzziest Books of 2021â | One of the New York Public Libraryâs Best Books for Adults | San Diego Union TribuneâMy Favorite Things from 2021 | Writerâs Boneâs Best Books of 2021 | Atlanta Journal ConstitutionâTop 10 Southern Books of the Year | One of the Guardianâs (UK) Best Ten 21st Century Comic Novels | One of Entertainment Weeklyâs 15 Books You Need to Read This June | On Entertainment Weeklyâs âMust Listâ | One of the New York Postâs Best Summer Reading books | One of GMAâs 27 Books for June | One of USA Todayâs 5 Books Not to Miss | One of Fortuneâs 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming Out in the Second Half of 2021 | One of The Rootâs PageTurners: Itâs Getting Hot in Here | One of Real Simpleâs Best New Books to Read in 2021
An astounding work of fiction from 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 Mottâs 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 more urgent: Mottâs 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 charactersâ stories 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, itâs also about the nationâs 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.
Product Specifications
Product Specifications
ISBN: 9780593330982
Genre: Fiction
Format: Paperback
Pages: 337
Publisher: Penguin
Published Date:
Language: English
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