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  1. Plot Summary. Hell of a Book has two parallel narratives that take place in alternating chapters. The first is set in rural Bolton, North Carolina. Written in the third person, this narrative follows a young Black boy named Soot, whose parents teach him how to turn invisible to keep him safe.

  2. Plot summary. In alternating chapters, the novel tells the stories of two different characters: a nameless novelist on tour for a book also titled Hell of a Book, and an African-American child named Soot.

  3. James Mott's novel Hell of a Book is written from both the first and third person points of view, and employs both the past and present tenses. The narrative alternates between the two main characters Soot's and an unnamed first person narrator's accounts.

  4. Hell of a Book is the title of a book that an unnamed, rather undescribed main character of Hell of a Book has published. To their surprise, there book achieved much publicity and popularity, and it skyrockets him into the status of a successful author.

  5. 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 ...

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  6. Jun 29, 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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  8. Jun 29, 2021 · A Black writer's cross-country book tour becomes a profound exploration of love, friendship, and racial violence in America. A man finds himself sprinting down the hallway of a Midwestern hotel, naked, a stranger (whose wife he's just been caught sleeping with) close on his heels.

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