{"id":1298,"date":"2024-03-02T17:57:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T17:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2024-03-02T17:57:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T17:57:27","slug":"book-club-hell-of-a-book-by-jason-mott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/2024\/03\/02\/book-club-hell-of-a-book-by-jason-mott\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Club: “Hell of a Book” by Jason Mott"},"content":{"rendered":"
February is Black Voices Month<\/strong> for the Lisle Free Library Book Club!<\/div>\n
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All readers are welcome to join our informal monthly book club meeting on Wednesday, 3\/27 @ 6pm. This month\u2019s book suggestion is \u201cHell of a Book\u201d by Jason Mott. As always, there is no required reading to attend the meeting. Please email us at lislefreelibrary@gmail.com if you would like to attend virtually. Copies available at the circulation desk.<\/div>\n
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***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER***<\/p>\n

***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER***<\/p>\n

Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing Shortlist, 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Shortlist, 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award Shortlist, 2022 Carnegie Medal Longlist
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\nA Read With Jenna <\/span>Today <\/span>Show Book Club Pick!
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\nAn Ebony Magazine Publishing Book Club Pick! 
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\nOne of <\/span>Washington Post<\/span>‘s 50 Notable Works of Fiction | One of <\/span>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/span>‘s Best Books of 2021 <\/span>| <\/span>One of Shelf Awareness’s Top Ten Fiction Titles of the Year | One of TIME Magazine\u2019s 100 Must-Read Books <\/span>|<\/span> One of NPR.org’s “Books We Love” | <\/span>EW<\/span>\u2019s “Guide to the Biggest and Buzziest Books of 2021” <\/span>|<\/span>One of the New York Public Library’s Best Books for Adults | <\/span>San Diego Union Tribune<\/span>\u2014My Favorite Things from 2021 <\/span>|<\/span> Writer’s Bone’s Best Books of 2021 <\/span>|<\/span>Atlanta Journal Constitution\u2014Top 10 Southern Books of the Year <\/span>|<\/span>One of the <\/span>Guardian<\/span>‘s (UK) Best Ten 21st Century Comic Novels <\/span>| <\/span>One of <\/span>Entertainment Weekly<\/span>‘s 15 Books You Need to Read This June | On <\/span>Entertainment Weekly<\/span>‘s “Must List” | One of the<\/span> New York Post<\/span>‘s Best Summer Reading books | One of GMA’s 27 Books for June <\/span>| One of <\/span>USA Today<\/span>‘s 5 Books Not to Miss <\/span>| One of <\/span>Fortune<\/span>‘s 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming Out in the Second Half of 2021<\/span>| One of <\/span>The Root<\/span>‘s PageTurners: It\u2019s Getting Hot in Here | One of <\/span>Real Simple<\/span>‘s Best New Books to Read in 2021<\/span>
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An astounding work of fiction from <\/span>New York Times<\/span> 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. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>In Jason Mott\u2019s Hell of a Book<\/span>, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book<\/span> and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent: Mott\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

As these characters\u2019 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\u2019s also about the nation\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/span> 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.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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