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Hell of a Book

Jason Mott

Start date: March 15, 2023

Finish date: April 15, 2023

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Aug 06, 2021 Linda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, 2021, audio, today-show

Wow! (again). This is nothing like anything I've ever read. It covers a lot of territory: losing a parent(s), parents losing a child, black on black crime, police brutality, self-worth.
I'm not sure I know what is/was "real" in this book, but much of it certainly is in life. I was continuously intrigued and wanting to know where it was going. ...more

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Dec 12, 2021 Dree rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2021-reads, natl-book-award-all-winner-short, african-am-can-diaspora-lit, audiobook, tournament-of-books

I listened to this on audio--and the narration was fantastic--but I wonder if I would have liked it more on paper? I found myself a little confused more than once (who? where?), and kept wondering what this book looked like on the page. Were there hard breaks, or font changes, or anything as unique as the story itself?

I found the dry and often sarcastic humor in the book to be quite funny--the consultant on book tours, at the beginning? OMG--I really expected to be surprised by the end, as the s ...more

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