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Jason Mott won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction with Hell of a Book, a novel that shares some characters and qualities with People Like Us. In People Like Us, one character narrates his own experience winning what is alternately called the National Book Award, "the n-word," and "The Big One." Mott is playful and exaggerated in his implications of just how revered and coveted the NBA is. But the National Book Award is revered and coveted, as much as an American book award can be. … continued

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From the Jacket

An electrifying novel about the complicated friendship between two ambitious and talented female writers in 1960s Los Angeles and the ultimate artistic betrayal: one writes a book based on the other's life… from the author of Reese's Book Club Pick Before We Were Innocent.

Praise

"Berman evokes Eve Babitz, Joan Didion, and the glamour of the 1960s California literary scene in this exciting tale of a friendship and its dissolution....Readers will surely fall for these two ladies of the canyon." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)