Thursday Night Book Club In-Person / Online
Join the Library's longest running book club on the 2nd Thursday of every month to discuss a new book! This month, we are reading Hell of a Book by Jason Mott. Copies are available at the Downtown Information Desk.
We will meet in person in the Downtown Library Community Room and simultaneously on Zoom.
Email libraryprograms@flagstaffpubliclibrary.org or call 928-213-2331 for additional information.
Synopsis:
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 more urgent: 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 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.
Who has been killed? Who is The Kid? Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind?
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- Date:
- Thursday, December 8, 2022
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Arizona Time (change)
- Location:
- Downtown Library Community Room (Capacity 41)
- Library:
- Downtown Library
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86113105232
- Audience:
- Adults Seniors
- Categories:
- Book Discussions and Author Talks