This month's Book Club meeting is going to be a h ybrid event and you are welcome to come to the hum anist center in person\, or to Zoom in using the l ink below.
\nThi s month's selection is: Hell of a Book by Jason Mo tt
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< em>From Amazon…
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336 pp or 9 hrs 40 m
in 4.3 stars
An Eb ony Magazine Publishing Book Club Pick! One of Wa shington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction | One of Philadelphia Inquirer's Best Books of 2021 | On e of Shelf Awareness's Top Ten Fiction Titles of t he Year | One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Boo ks | One of NPR.org's "Books We Love" | EW’s "Guid e to the Biggest and Buzziest Books of 2021" |One of the New York Public Library's Best Books for Ad ults | San Diego Union Tribune—My Favorite Things from 2021 | Writer's Bone's Best Books of 2021 |At lanta Journal Constitution—Top 10 Southern Books o f the Year |One of the Guardian's (UK) Best Ten 21 st Century Comic Novels | One of Entertainment Wee kly's 15 Books You Need to Read This June | On Ent ertainment Weekly's "Must List" | One of the New Y ork Post's Best Summer Reading books | One of GMA' s 27 Books for June | One of USA Today's 5 Books N ot to Miss | One of Fortune's 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming Out in the Second Half of 2021| One o f The Root's PageTurners: It’s Getting Hot in Here | One of Real Simple's Best New Books to Read in 2021
\nAn astounding work of fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott\, always deeply honest\, at times elec trically funny\, that goes to the heart of racism\ , police violence\, and the hidden costs exacted u pon Black Americans and America as a whole
\n < p class="mb-ds2-10">In Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book \, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publ icity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffol ding of something much larger and more urgent: Mot t’s novel also tells the story of Soot\, a young B lack boy living in a rural town in the recent past \, and The Kid\, a possibly imaginary child who ap pears to the author on his tour.\nAs these characters’ stories build and c onverge\, they astonish. For while this heartbreak ing and magical book entertains and is at once abo ut family\, love of parents and children\, art and money\, it’s also about the nation’s reckoning wi th a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America.
\nWho has been killed? Who is The Kid? Will the author f inish his book tour\, and what kind of world will he leave behind? Unforgettably told\, with charact ers who burn into your mind and an electrifying pl ot ideal for book club discussion\, Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has been writing in his head fo r the last ten years. And in its final twists\, it truly becomes its title.
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The Book Club meets on the 4th Saturday of every month.
\nHenry Geist and Vici Duarte are your hosts.
\nZoom meeting ID: 914
535 5110
(Open your Zoom app and type this
number in the box that comes up after you click on
the 'Join' icon)
Note: The book club mee ts in the library\, which is down the hallway from the great room.
DESCRIPTION:\n \n \n This month's Book Club meeting is going t o be a hybrid event and you are welcome to come to the humanist center in person\, or to Zoom in usi ng the link below.\n \n \n This month's selection is: Hell of a Book by Jason Mott\n \n \n \n \n \n From Amazon…\n \n \n Hell of a Book by Jaxon Mott \n 336 pp or 9 hrs 40 min 4.3 stars\n \n \n An Eb ony Magazine Publishing Book Club Pick! One of Wa shington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction | One of Philadelphia Inquirer's Best Books of 2021 | On e of Shelf Awareness's Top Ten Fiction Titles of t he Year | One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Boo ks | One of NPR.org's "Books We Love" | EW’s "Guid e to the Biggest and Buzziest Books of 2021" |One of the New York Public Library's Best Books for Ad ults | San Diego Union Tribune—My Favorite Things from 2021 | Writer's Bone's Best Books of 2021 |At lanta Journal Constitution—Top 10 Southern Books o f the Year |One of the Guardian's (UK) Best Ten 21 st Century Comic Novels | One of Entertainment Wee kly's 15 Books You Need to Read This June | On Ent ertainment Weekly's "Must List" | One of the New Y ork Post's Best Summer Reading books | One of GMA' s 27 Books for June | One of USA Today's 5 Books N ot to Miss | One of Fortune's 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming Out in the Second Half of 2021| One o f The Root's PageTurners: It’s Getting Hot in Here | One of Real Simple's Best New Books to Read in 2021\n \n \n An astounding work of fiction from Ne w York Times bestselling author Jason Mott\, alway s deeply honest\, at times electrically funny\, th at goes to the heart of racism\, police violence\, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans and America as a whole\n \n \n In Jason Mott’s He ll 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.\n \n \n As these characters’ stories build and converge \, they astonish. For while this heartbreaking and magical book entertains and is at once about fami ly\, love of parents and children\, art and money\ , it’s also about the nation’s reckoning with a tr agic police shooting playing over and over again o n the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America.\n \n \n Who has been killed? Who is Th e Kid? Will the author finish his book tour\, and what kind of world will he leave behind? Unforgett ably told\, with characters who burn into your min d and an electrifying plot ideal for book club dis cussion\, Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has bee n writing in his head for the last ten years. And in its final twists\, it truly becomes its title.\ n \n \n \n \n \n The Book Club meets on the 4th Saturday of every month.\n \n \n Henry Geist and V ici Duarte are your hosts.\n \n \n Zoom meeting ID : 914 535 5110\n (Open your Zoom app and type thi s number in the box that comes up after you click on the 'Join' icon)\n \n \n Note: The book club me ets in the library\, which is down the hallway fro m the great room.\n \n CATEGORIES:Book club CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260627T100000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260627T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260627T120000 LOCATION:627 W RIO SALADO PKWY\n HUMANIST SOCIETY OF GREATE R PHOENIX\n MESA\, AZ 85201-4009\n United States\n URL:https://hsgp.org/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=4939 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR