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Hell of a Book

National Book Award Winner

By Jason Mott


This really wasn't what I expected. A great book at times, funny, sad, surreal, bizarre, but also deeply grounded and real. The book examines a lot, and this was certainly not the main focus (I don't think?) but for me really captured well a particular feeling of helplessness and despair on how so much is falling apart all around us. I didn't love a lot of it, but it was worth sticking with -- great ending.
That said, I found the title distracting, and didn't love the cover.

336 pages
Published Jun 27, 2022 by Dutton

Fiction - African American & Black - General

Fiction - Literary

Fiction - Southern