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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
- Title
- Hell of a book, or the altogether factual, Wholly Bona Fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-Made Mad Kid / Jason Mott.
- Author
- Mott, Jason
- Publication
- [New York] : Dutton, [2021]
- ©2021
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- Description
- 319 pages; 22 cm
- 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.
- 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
- Subject
- African American authors > Fiction
- African Americans > Fiction
- Book industries and trade > Fiction
- Racism against Black people > Fiction
- African Americans > Violence against > Fiction
- Racism > Fiction
- Police brutality > Fiction
- Murder > Fiction
- Police > Fiction
- Fictitious characters > Fiction
- African Americans
- Book industries and trade
- Authors
- Fictitious characters
- Murder
- Police
- Racism
- United States > Race relations > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- Sc D 22-175
- ISBN
- 9780593330968
- 059333096X
- 9780593185865
- 0593185862
- LCCN
- 2020047751
- OCLC
- 1204267764
- Author
- Mott, Jason, author.
- Title
- Hell of a book, or the altogether factual, Wholly Bona Fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-Made Mad Kid / Jason Mott.
- Publisher
- [New York] : Dutton, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 22-175