Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book is the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2021. This is a true story about an author on a book tour for his bestseller ‘Hell of a Book’. One morning he meets The Kid, a young Black boy who looks eerily like the one on the news, shot by the police. The Kid wants to tell the author his story. It’s a sad story, a love story, and a story unlike any you’ve read before.