Review: ‘People Like Us' is one of the year’s best novels

Can people like us go home again?

Here’s a trivia question: Name a novel by a North Carolina writer about a fictional author who traveled abroad and struggled with returning to the complexities of American culture?

Martin: Can people like us go home again?

Here’s a trivia question: Name a novel by a North Carolina writer about a fictional author who traveled abroad and struggled with returning to the complexities of American culture?

Review: ‘People Like Us' is one of the year’s best novels

The title of Jason Mott’s oddly riveting “People Like Us” refers to several groups: Black people (like its three narrators), Europeans, writers, Southerners, Americans, those who feel left out. “I wonder what it feels like to be somewhere in this…