The basic premise of The Nobody People is X-Men. It took me a good hundred and fifty pages into the book to realize that the title is a possible reference to the X-Men, but that that was the premise was clear from the start. There is a small but increasing part of the population with super powers. There is a school founded by one of these people for them. There is fear around the discovery of their existence and an effort to criminalize them.
We're introduced to the story as a young man with destructive abilities is radicalized into using them for terrorist attacks, and a freelance reporter finds out that his daughter is more than just oddly prescient. The founder of a school for Resonants, as they call themselves, believes that discovery is imminent and uses the reporter to "come out" to the world. Through multiple perspectives, most of them students/former students/faculty of the school, we follow the aftermath as Resonants fight for recognition and their civil rights.
One review that I read (in one of the professional journals, I believe - it's not included with the material in the ARC and those are the other places I'd have read reviews) said that the difference between this book and similar comic book themes is the intersectional way The Nobody People examines how Resonant status or not interacts with race, gender, and sexuality. I can't speak to whether or not that differentiates it from X-Men, since I only have experience with the movies (hello, Ian McKellen and James McAvoy) and for all I know the comics could be considering that thoroughly. I will say that The Nobody People succeeds admirably in that regard; while Resonance serves as a parallel to other minority statuses for which people have been persecuted, it doesn't replace them and it's clear that those with multiple lesser privileged identities are at greater risk.
This is a chilling new take on classic science fiction themes.
Overall: A
The Nobody People will be available September 3