New People Audiobook Summary
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 BY
Vogue • 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.
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New People Audiobook Narrator
Kristen Ariza is the narrator of New People audiobook that was written by Danzy Senna
About the Author(s) of New People
Danzy Senna is the author of New People
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New People Full Details
Narrator | Kristen Ariza |
Length | 6 hours 5 minutes |
Author | Danzy Senna |
Category | |
Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
Release date | April 28, 2024 |
ISBN | 9781524776862 |
Subjects
The publisher of the New People is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: racial identity, race, race relations, racism, biracial, adoption, family, marriage, relationships, love, sex, affair, African American, black, black lives, Brooklyn, coming of age, contemporary, literary fiction, gentrification, sociology, Jonestown, college, Jim Jones, cults, siblings, mother daughter relationships, identity politics, nanny, mothers, realistic fiction books, fiction, novels, political books, politics, fiction books, african american fiction, african american books, election, african american, political, books fiction, Fiction, African American, Contemporary Women, Fiction, Family Life, Fiction, Political The BISAC Subject Code is African American, Contemporary Women, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the New People is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9781524776862.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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