Hell of a book : or the altogether factual, Wholly Bona Fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-Made Mad Kid / Jason Mott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mott, Jason, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fictitious characters--Fiction.

Fictitious characters.

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Book industries and trade.

Book industries and trade--Fiction.

Racism--Fiction.

Racism.

Police--Fiction.

Police.

Murder--Fiction.

Murder.

African Americans--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

319 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Dutton, [2021]

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.

"From a New York Times bestselling author, an astounding work of fiction, both incredibly funny and heartfelt, asking readers to embrace the fantastical in order to get to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon not only Black Americans, but America as a whole" -- Provided by publisher.

Soot, a young Black boy, lives in a rural town in the recent past. The Kid, a possibly imaginary child appears to a Black author on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. As their stories build and converge, they astonish. As the nation reckons with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news, 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? -- adapted from jacket

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Mott, Jason, Hell of a book

ISBN:

9780593330968

059333096X

9780593185865

0593185862

OCLC:

1204267764

Publisher Number:

40030675658