A marriage ends when the husband accepts that he is gay. Now the ex-couple must struggle with the love and respect they once had for each other, as well as how to navigate their new lives, lives that test the traditional ideas of marriage, religion and sex. Then there is the matter of their young daughter and son... how do they fit them into this new life? People Like Us is the second book of the This Place of Men Trilogy (This Place of Men is book one and Leaving Gomorrah is the third and final book in the series).