{"id":53907,"date":"2017-08-01T15:13:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T15:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53907"},"modified":"2017-08-01T20:04:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:04:02","slug":"new-people-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53907","title":{"rendered":"New People, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

New People, A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Riverhead<\/a> (an imprint of Penguin)
\n2017-08-01
\n240 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-1594487095
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0735219410<\/p>\n

Danzy Senna<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>
\nFrom the bestselling author of Caucasia<\/em><\/a>, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manners in contemporary America.<\/p>\n

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, \u201cKing and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom.\u201d Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn<\/a>, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom<\/a> and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation, on the Jonestown massacre<\/a>. They\u2019ve even landed a starring role in a documentary about \u201cnew people\u201d like them, who are blurring the old boundaries as a brave new era dawns. Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her\u2013yet she can\u2019t 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\u2019s perfect new life but her very persona.<\/p>\n

Heartbreaking and darkly comic, New People<\/em> is a bold and unfettered page-turner that challenges our every assumption about how we define one another, and ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the bestselling author of “Caucasia,” a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manners in contemporary America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,20],"tags":[1340,3536],"class_list":["post-53907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-danzy-senna","tag-riverhead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53920,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53907\/revisions\/53920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}