People Like You
Book description
Finalist, PEN/Hemingway Award
In this marvelously funny, unsettling, subtle, and moving collection of stories, the characters exist in the thick of everyday experience absent of epiphanies. The people are caught off-guard or cast adrift by personal impulses even while wide awake to their own imperfections. Each voice will win readers…
Why read it?
1 author picked People Like You as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This collection reads like realistic stories from the perspective of a single point-of-view that throws common life into the realm of the weirdly uncommon.
In fact, I kept reading to figure out what I was reading. What changed in the process? My own perception of the world in which we live. These people may be like us, but the writer looks at them with new and different eyes. These stories sneak up on you and take over your mind for a marvelously short time because it’s a short book of short stories—one I recommend because it’s so unusual.
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