A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! One of Entertainment Weekly's 15 Books you Need
to Read This June | On Entertainment Weekly's "Must List" | One of The NY Post's Best Summer
Reading books | One of GMA's 27 Books for June | One of USA Today's 5 Books Not to Miss | One
of Fortune's 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming out in the Second Half of 2021 | One of The
Root's PageTurners: It's Getting Hot in Here | One of Real Simple's Best New Books to Read in
2021 An astounding work of fiction from a New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott
always deeply honest at times electrically funny that goes to the heart of racism police
violence and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans and America as a whole 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.
