I was left wanting more from New People. It feels like it reaches high and often misses the mark. It's a book ostensibly about race, and especially focused on "new people" or those of us who don't fit neatly into one category of race, an ever-growing number of Americans. Within the book is an eponym...
Worth reading, and worth discussing. This would be a good book for a reading circle.
Birdie Lee and Cole Lee, daughters of a black academic and a white radical, are separated when their mother's involvement in radical politics gains FBI attention: Cole, who looks black, goes off with their father and his new (black) girlfriend to Brazil (their father says he is sick of America), and...
Nameless mixed-race narrator is befriended by and then stalked by another mixed-race woman who sees this as an essential kinship."She opened the door, but paused, and turned to smile at me through a web of rain. 'You know, you're never really alone. Not really.'"I looked down and kicked the pavement...
Books Read in the Past:A sometimes-entertaining, sometimes-wrenching novel about race in America, as enacted by two biracial sisters with different skin color, one of whom appears more white, the other of whom, more black. Issues of identity, group membership, alienation, and family arise in a novel...
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