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Jun 29, 2021 · Written in 1941 and '42, between Wright’s classics Native Son and Black Boy, this short novel concerns Fred Daniels, a modest laborer who’s arrested by police officers and bullied into signing a false confession that he killed the residents of a house near where he was working.
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Jun 29, 2021 · 301 reviews1,232 followers. December 18, 2021. Hell of a Book is, at times, an astute depiction of the threat of state violence faced by Black men in the United States. The novel is told in chapters that alternate between the perspectives of an unnamed author and an adolescent Black boy called Soot.
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A twisty and startling narrative about the blurry lines between reality and fiction ― TIME Magazine. With audacity and invention, Jason Mott's Hell of a Book weaves together three narrative strands - an unnamed author, a boy named Soot, and a figure known as The Kid - into a masterful novel.
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Aug 12, 2021 · Jason Mott’s “Hell of a Book” is a novel that confounds the normal parameters of storytelling. What starts out as a relatively straightforward tale about a Black author’s cross-country ...
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Jan 26, 2023 · A profound exploration of love, friendship, and racial violence . . . A story that is at once a paean to familial love and friendship and a reckoning with racism and police violence. By turns playful and surprising and intimate, a moving meditation on being Black in America. - Kirkus Reviews.
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Dec 20, 2021 · Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book, winner of the 2021 National Book Award, is our next selection. Quick Book Summary (from the official blurb) : “In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book , a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel.
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Jun 29, 2021 · Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. A Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel, while also telling 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.
