New People, Paperback
Descriere
Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, NPR and THE ROOT Named A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ BYVogue - Elle - Harper's Bazaar - Glamour - Buzzfeed - In Style - Men's Journal - Bustle - Ms. Magazine - Pop Sugar - Newsday - The Millions - Time Out - Bitch - CNN's The Lead - The Fader "" A] cutting take on race and class...part dark comedy, part surreal morality tale. Disturbing and delicious."" -People ""You'll gulp Senna's novel in a single sitting--but then mull over it for days."" -Entertainment Weekly ""Everyone should read it."" -Vogue 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.
Despre autor
Danzy Senna este o romancieră și eseistă americană. Ea este autoarea a șase cărți și a numeroase eseuri despre rasă, gen și identitate americană, inclusiv Caucasia (1998), Symptomatic (2003), New People (2017) și cel mai recent Colored Television (2024). Scrierile ei au apărut în The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vogue și The New York Times. Este profesor de engleză la Universitatea din Southern California.
