30 Must-Read Summer Books You Need in Your Beach Bag

Danzy Senna's New People is a brilliant, thoughtful treatise on race and identity in the 21st century. Maria and Khalil appear to have it all — until she finds herself falling for a new man who she barely knows. As her obsession grows deeper, she realizes she'll have to choose between the idyllic life she has or a new world that may, quite possibly, be all in her head.