Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, Hell Of A Book is a story that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole.

In Hell of a Book, an African-American author sets out on a cross-country book tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Jason Mott’s novel and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent: since his 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.