People Like You

By Monika Killeen

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HBZB8VT3
• ISBN13: 9798951966070
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Monika Killeen
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"