This combination of book cover images shows "All That She Carried: The Journey Of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake" by Tiya Miles, "Hell Of A Book" by Jason Mott, and "Last Night At The Telegraph Club" by Malinda Lo. These books won the US National Book Awards for nonfiction, fiction and young people's literature respectively. Photo: AP
Jason Mott's Hell Of A Book, a surreal meta-narrative about an author's promotional tour and his haunted past and present, has won the National Book Award for fiction - a plot twist Mott did not imagine for himself.
Hell Of A Book is a satirical take on a Black writer's adventures on the road for a promotional tour - Mott himself had his share of experiences while talking up such previous works as his debut novel The Returned - and a stark and disorienting tale of racial violence and identity, drawing on recent headlines and the author's childhood.
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