Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick)

Release Date:- 2024-09-03

Reviews Counts:- 13

User Average Rating:- 4.5

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$14.99

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK


ā€œA laugh-out-loud cultural comedyā€¦ This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set the standard.ā€  ā€“LA Times


ā€œFunny, foxy and fleetā€¦The jokes are good, the punches land, the dialogue is tart.ā€ ā€“Dwight Garner, The New York Times

A brilliant take on love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia


Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, she and her family are living in luxury for a year, house-sitting in the hills above Los Angeles. The gig magically coincides with Janeā€™s sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novelā€”a centuries-spanning epic her artist husband, Lenny, dubs her ā€œmulatto War and Peace.ā€ Finally, some semblance of stability and success seems to be within her grasp.

But things donā€™t work out quite as hoped. Desperate for a plan B, like countless writers before her Jane turns her gaze to Hollywood. When she finagles a meeting with Hampton Ford, a hot producer with a major development deal at a streaming network, he seems excited to work with a ā€œreal writer,ā€ and together they begin to develop ā€œthe Jackie Robinson of biracial comedies.ā€ Things finally seem to be going right for Janeā€”until they go terribly wrong.

Funny, piercing, and page turning, Colored Television is Sennaā€™s most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.

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