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Memoir, biography or novel? Jason Mott leans into the confusion in his latest book 'People Like Us'

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By Ayesha Rascoe

Published August 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM EDT

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Jason Mott about his latest novel, "People Like Us," which started out as a memoir. It turned into two parallel stories about two different writers in crisis.

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Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.

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