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      • With its two distinct yet interconnecting narratives, Hell of a Book is a playfully disorienting novel that carefully balances both tragedy and comedy. A nuanced meditation on grief, mental illness, and racism, it explores the fear of anti-Black violence and the challenge of loving oneself in the face of racial hatred.
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  2. Hell of a Book[a] is a 2021 book by Jason Mott. It won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. 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. 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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  4. With its two distinct yet interconnecting narratives, Hell of a Book is a playfully disorienting novel that carefully balances both tragedy and comedy. A nuanced meditation on grief, mental illness, and racism, it explores the fear of anti-Black violence and the challenge of loving oneself in the face of racial hatred.

  5. Jul 7, 2021 · Hell of a Book interrogates the expectation that Black writers must tell Black stories, or, viewed through a wider lens, that artists of color must respond to themes of race in their art. And yet this novel is, in overtly candid and unsettling ways, a deep dive into the precariousness of being Black in America.

  6. 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 tour for...

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  7. 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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  8. “Hell of a Book is a love story, even if it’s about a love that led to grief. Our narrator’s heartbreak is what causes him to see the world through a broken lens, to the point that plot-oriented readers may find themselves frustrated.

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