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Hell of a book : or the altogether factual, wholly bona fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-made Mad Kid

Summary: 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.

Item details

ISBN: 9780593330968
ISBN: 059333096X
ISBN: 9780593185865
ISBN: 0593185862
ISBN: 9780593330999
ISBN: 9780593330982
ISBN: 0593330986
Physical Description: print
319 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: [New York] : Dutton, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021
Badges:
- Top Circs: 2 / 5.0
- Most Copies: 2 / 5.0
- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 1 / 5.0

Contents / Notes

General Note:	"Read with Jenna" -- Front jacket cover.
Awards Note:	Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

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