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People Like You
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Monika Killeen
Published: Jul 24 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
We graft new faces onto old bones, stitching hope to history until one finally gives.
(People Like You avoids ornament. It is a sharp, character-driven novel about social mobility, memory and the scar tissues of cultural dislocations that shape us. Six female voices-lawyer, teen, therapist, mother, daughter, elder-unspool secrets, ruptures and hard-won reckonings. This unsparing but fiercely humane prose gently excavates how shame, desire and guilt remake us, one betrayal, one reclaimed moment at a time.
Based on true stories: this is an unflinching study of how we become.
Spare, wry and quietly fierce, Killeen writes with the precision of an observer and the mercy of a poet...
(The Books Publishing Company Press Release)
Winner of the Book Excellence Award 2025 in the Women's Nonfiction category for An Inflammable Act of Kindness
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