Hell of a Book by Jason Mott-Used Kim van Alkemade enthralling readers with its suspenseful

enthralling readers with its suspenseful action and vivid depiction of life in sixteenth-century Venice

bringing old heartbreaks into sharper focus

and greed—and that soon it will lead to murder

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Hell of a Book by Jason Mott-Used Kim van Alkemade enthralling readers with its suspensefulIn 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. Throughout, these characters' stories build