New People

From the bestselling author of Caucasia, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manners in contemporary America.As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding They are the perfect couple, King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom Their skin is the same shade of beige They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation, on the Jonestown massacre They ve even landed a starring role in a documentary about new people like them, who are blurring the old boundaries as a brave new era dawns Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her yet she can t stop daydreaming about another man, a poet she barely knows As fantasy escalates to fixation, it dredges up secrets from the past and threatens to unravel not only Maria s perfect new life but her very persona.Heartbreaking and darkly comic, New People is a bold and unfettered page turner that challenges our every assumption about how we define one another, and ourselves. New Read New People By Danzy Senna For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Interesting and ambitious novel about multiracial identity Maria is a strong protagonist frustrating, hard to really know, intelligent, strange The overall tone of the book is moody and wry and meditative Interesting structure with the heavy use of flashbacks Feels incomplete While...New People by Senna Danzy is a 2017 Riverhead Books publication Unconventional, a little disturbing, but thought provoking and exceptionally written Despite its brevity, this book packs a potent punch, written in a quirky, offbeat prose, that captured my attention and forced me to stay focused The novel is, without a doubt, about race New People meaning biracial However, there isto the story than meets the eye Maria and her fianc Khalil are both biracial Maria s adoptive mother New People by Senna Danzy is a 2017 Riverhead Books publication Unconventional, a little disturbing, but thought provoking and exceptionally written Despite its brevity, this book packs a potent punch, writt...I was once a PhD student in ethnomusicology, so to find a protagonist with that shared experience was a huge surprise and definitely added a start to my reading of this novel I loved Maria and her weird obsessions, but she did start making puzzling decisions near the end I enjoyed the ongoing dis...Nope This woman is messy and ridiculous Bye, gurl DNFThis book was so strange, so compelling and so uncomfortable, I could have read another 200 pages and never grown tired of it.It s the 1990s and Maria and her fianc Khalil are, as the documentary they re starring in puts it, new people Born in the late 60s to early 70s, new people are the progeny of the Renaissance of Interracial Unions As a light skinned biracial woman, Maria struggles with the challenge of not fitting in with either race.While a large part of this book is a dry social s This book was so strange, so compelling and so uncomfortable, I could have read another 200 pages and never grown tired of it.It s the 1990s and Maria and her fianc Khalil are, as the documentary they re starring in puts it, new people Born in the late 60s to early 70s, new people are the progeny of the Renaissance of Interracial Unions As a light skinned biracial woman, Maria struggles with the challenge of not fitting in with either race.While a large part of this book is ...Follow me on for all my reviews and recommendations I really enjoyed New People and was intrigued by who the description, new people , referred to Maria and Khalil are a seemingly happy, engaged couple living in Brooklyn, both light skinned, mixed race Khalil, a technology consultant, comes from a solid, intact family unit and is close with his parents and sister who is darker skinned than he is Maria has no relatives she was adopted by a black woman wh Follow me on for all my reviews and recommendations I really enjoyed New People and was intrigued by who the description, new people , referred to Maria and Khalil are a seemingly happy, engaged couple living in Brooklyn, both light skinned, mixed race Khalil, a technology consultant, comes from a solid, intact family unit and is close with his parents and sister who is darker skinned than he is Maria has no relatives she was adopted by a black woman who was hoping to raise a mini me and has since passed away She is spending her time writing her dissertation on Jamestown and busy learning about the mass suicides, how this could happen, and how those people kept going as long as they did Maria s previous boyfriend was white and although something about him made her despise him as a person, they had unrivaled physical chemistry She now is planning her wedding to Khalil, but is distracted by her attraction to a black poet who she keeps running into.Maria has done som...I received a copy of New People as a Goodreads Giveaway The writing itself is not bad, in fact, there are moments in the book where I genuinely enjoy her writing The problems I have are with the story itself, the themes, and the characters The characters are one dimensional and there is little character building If the intention was to have a unlikable protagonist, Senna was successful It seems to me that the author had good intentions in her de...The narrative of the rudderless twenty something in New York City takes on new life when there s a real reason for the lack of direction In NEW PEOPLE Senna introduces us to Maria, who is working hard to create a specific identity for herself as a mixed race woman She s created the kind of life she thinks that woman should have and as she comes closer to obtaining all of it, things start to fall apart at the seams Chief among these crises are her relationships to men Her fiance, Khalil, has The narrative of the rudderless twenty something in New York City takes on new life when there s a real reason for the lack of direction In NEW PEOPLE Senna introduces us to Maria, who is working hard to create a specific identity for herself as a mixed race woman She s created the kind of life she thinks that woman should have and as she comes closer to obtaining all of it, things start to fall apart at the seams Chief among these crises are her relationships to men Her fiance, Khalil, has the same skin color as she does and fits the ideal she s created for hers...Not exactly what I was expecting On the surface it s a simple story of obsession interspersed with bits about the narrator s dissertation on Jonestown and a few shining moments discussing race class differences Like other reviewers, the ending had me quite puzzled the book fe...I usually give three stars to books that I liked just enough In the case of this book, I m not happy rating it so low, especially now that I want to read everything else Danzy Senna has written But I can t think of any other way to express my disappointment that it felt so rushed to its end An attempt is made to resolve most of the internal conflicts Maria faces, but it s all too hasty and ambiguous to be satisfying A novel of much longer length could have been written about these characters I usually give three stars to books that I liked just enough In the case of this book, I m not happy r...

• English
• 26 March 2017
Danzy Senna
• Hardcover
• 240 pages
• 159448709X
• Danzy Senna
• New People