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Also by Jason Mott:

People Like Us, August 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Hell of a Book, July 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Hell of a Book, August 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Crossing, May 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Crossing, May 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Wonder of All Things, October 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Returned, September 2013
Hardcover / e-Book

Hell of a Book
Jason Mott

A Novel

Dutton
July 2022
On Sale: June 28, 2022
Featuring: Jason Mott
336 pages
ISBN: 0593330986
EAN: 9780593330982
Kindle: B08NWD5FYG
Trade Paperback / e-Book
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Literature and Fiction

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 more urgent: 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 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.

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