Acclaimed North Carolina author Jason Mott made a memorable statement about racial violence in his 2021 National Book Award winner “Hell of a Book” when he introduced his character Soot — a little Black boy who turns invisible when he senses danger.

The story follows an unnamed narrator who is an Author on a book tour promoting his bestselling novel of the same title. As the Author intersects with characters inspired by different aspects of his personality, Mott’s metafictional tragicomedy weaves together a transportive and evocative treatise on generational trauma, gun violence and mental health.

But it seems he wasn’t done, either with these characters or his auto-fictional interrogation of American life. The saga continues in Mott’s latest novel “People Like Us,” another speculati

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