New Jason Mott book gets meta [Video]

Jason Mott’s first novel since “Hell of a Book” is a kind of meta-sequel to his award-winning meta-narrative about a Black author’s haunting promotional tour.

The Penguin Random House imprint Dutton announced Thursday that it has reached a deal with Mott for “People Like Us,” in which a “prize-winning Black author” embarks on a global book tour that finds him experiencing everything from invisibility and time travel to sea monsters and peacocks. “Hell of a Book,” published in 2021, won the National Book Award for fiction and was chosen for Jenna Bush Hager’s “Today” show book club.

“People Like Us” is scheduled for release next fall.

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‘“People Like Us’ originally began as a memoir. I was attempting to sort through some of the impactful experiences I had both as an author and as a teacher recently, and over the last few years,” Mott …