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Narrated by:
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Kristen Ariza
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By:
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Danzy Senna
From the best-selling author of Caucasia, a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class, and manners in contemporary America.
As the 20th 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 novel that challenges our every assumption about how we define one another and ourselves.
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Just ok
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I have read a lot of reviews for this book, both “professional” like the very favorable Kirkus Review, and from Audible listeners (mostly disappointed ones), but no one seems to like this book for the reason I did, which is that it is utterly original. In a reading universe of exhaustively similar plots and even voices, Maria is her own woman. A very complex human character, closer to real than I suspect most people find comfortable. In fact, even in the novel, no one is really comfortable with her except poor love-blind Khalil. Maria does some highly unusual things, yet still manages to keep up her facade. Until she falls asleep and it cracks. This is how mental breakdowns so often actually happen, not with a bang, but a whimper. A final letting go of the rope tethering our outer persona to our inner reality. Maria is a rebel searching for a cause that she doesn't find in her dissertation. The poet is a way to channel some of that unfocused search for meaning. And a way to escape the pressure of a marriage she clearly doesn't want, but can't find a good enough reason to call off. I didn't really like Maria, but I found her tremendously real and I had empathy for her. I also found her interesting. What would I do if someone mistook me for the nanny and then fled the apartment before I could explain? Not sure, but I enjoyed being asked the question by this novel.
Unique protaganist and story
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Wait what???
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The voice actor was excellent.
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The ending leaves the story open for discussion.
Different!!
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Most interesting perspective!
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Too weird and strange; too many unanswered questio
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I just kept hoping for it to get better
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book club book
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