Hell of a Book

If it's too painful to address a topic head on, sneak up on it. Ultimately this book is about police brutality and mistreatment of black people in America. The main character, a novelist, is trying to move beyond the trauma that is the African American experience, but he can't, because it never goes away. If I have a complaint about the book is in the portrayal of white people. The novelist's agent is a caricature and so is the publicist hired to give him media training. Ironically, the only white person in the book who felt real was the cop who committed the killing that is central to the story.