"You’ll gulp Senna’s novel in one sitting—but then mull over it for days.” –Entertainment Weekly

"Everyone may still learn it." –Vogue

From the bestselling writer of Caucasia, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, classification and manners in modern the USA.

As the 20 th century attracts to an in depth, Maria is at the beginning of a lifestyles she by no means proposal attainable. She and Khalil, her collage sweetheart, are making plans their marriage ceremony. they're the suitable couple, "King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom." Their pores and skin is similar coloration of beige. They stay jointly in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn, the place Khalil is driving the wave of the 1st dot-com increase and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation, at the Jonestown bloodbath. they have even landed a starring function in a documentary approximately "new humans" like them, who're blurring the previous limitations as a courageous new period dawns. every thing Maria understands she may still wish lies earlier than her--yet she cannot cease having a pipe dream approximately one other guy, a poet she slightly is aware. As fable escalates to fixation, it dredges up secrets and techniques from the previous and threatens to solve not just Maria's excellent new existence yet her very personality.

Heartbreaking and darkly comedian, New People is a daring and unfettered page-turner that demanding situations our each assumption approximately how we outline each other, and ourselves.