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02205aam a2200325 i 4500 001 94780D14122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220802012256 008 220119t20222021nyu e 000 f eng d 020 $a 0593330986 020 $a 9780593330982 035 $a (OCoLC)1292706069 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d JUH $d SILO 100 1 $a Mott, Jason, $e author. 245 10 $a Hell of a book : $b or the altogether factual, wholly bona fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-made mad kid / $c Jason Mott. 264 1 $a New York : $b Dutton, $c [2022] 300 $a 319 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a A Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives this 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 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, this 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. 650 0 $a African Americans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fictitious characters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Authors $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Book industries and trade $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Racism $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Police $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Murder $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Book club set. $2 local 941 $a 2 952 $l WPPB215 $d 20220927013023.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20220802013534.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=94780D14122B11EDB028045E3CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search