Program Type:
Book ClubAge Group:
AdultsProgram Description
Event Details
The Book and Pub Club is a librarian-led book club that meets in local bars and restaurants to discuss books over food and drinks. For participants 21+.
Join librarians Megan and Anya at La Alianza (formerly El Cuñao), 44 Route 303 in Valley Cottage at 7pm to discuss Hell of a Book by Jason Mott.
In Hell of a Book, an African-American author sets out on a cross-country book tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Jason Mott's novel and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent: since his 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.
Throughout, these characters' stories build and build and as they 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, there always is the tragic story of a police shooting playing over and over on the news.
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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Disclaimer(s)
21+
Must be 21 or older to attend.