People Like Us : A Novel （INT. 2025. 288 S. 8.9900 in）

Mott, Jason

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE; DUTTON（2025発売）

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE; DUTTON（2025発売）

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Description

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Longlisted for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Finalist for the Willie Morris Awards for Southern Fiction
One of TIME Magazine s 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
One of USA Today s 15 Books You Should Read This Summer
One of Atlanta Journal-Constitution s Hot New Summer Reads
One of People's Most Anticipated Summer Books
One of Lit Hub s Most Anticipated Books of 2025
A Late Show Book Club pick

The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 National Book Award winner and bestseller Hell of a Book

People Like Us is Jason Mott s electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason s life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with dreamlike experiences that pull a reader in and don t let go, from the ability to time travel to sightings of sea monsters and peacocks, and feelings of love and memory so real they hurt.

In People Like Us, two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. And as their two storylines merge, truths and antics abound in equal measure: characters drink booze out of an award trophy; menaces lurk in the shadows; tiny French cars putter around the countryside; handguns seem to hover in the air; and dreams endure against all odds.

People Like Us is wickedly funny and achingly sad all at once. It is an utter triumph bursting with larger-than-life characters who deliver a very real take on our world. This book contains characters experiencing deep loss and longing; it also is buoyed by riotous humor and characters who share the deepest love. It is the newest creation of a writer whose work amazes, delivering something utterly new yet instantly recognizable as a Jason Mott novel.

Finishing the novel will leave you absolutely breathless and, at the sametime, utterly filled with joy for life, changed forever by characters who are people like us.
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Jason Mott has published four novels. His first novel, The Returned, was a New York Times bestseller and was turned into a TV series that ran for two seasons. He has a BFA in fiction and an MFA in poetry, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His poetry and fiction have appeared in various literary journals, and his most recent novel, Hell of a Book, was named the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 2021.
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is is a novel true to our time s search for a path forward one that even dares to dream of togetherness." Booklist

A book that begs for an immediate reread, People Like Us hits the soul hard. It is haunting, vivid literary fiction at its finest. BookPage (starred review)

Mott s latest is even more dazzling: a sharp-witted satire on race and the literary life, a raging indictment of our addiction to guns, a novel both propulsive and deeply thoughtful. The Boston Globe

In a novel that first began as a memoir, Mott ( Hell of a Book ) brilliantly explores the nature of grief, fear, hope and joy through the story of two Black writers trying to find peace and belonging in a violent world. Atlanta Journal Constitution

Mott pulls together these disparate elements with his deft prose, delivering a funny, sharp commentary on contemporary America. AV Club