Maplewood Eclectic Book Club | Ramsey County Library
Maplewood Eclectic Book Club | Ramsey County Library
Monday, February 20
7:00pm - 8:00pm
This month the BPL Book Club will be discussing Hell of a Book by Jason Mott, the powerful 2022 National Book Award Winner. Join us for a lively book chat!
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.
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