Release Date:- 2024-09-03
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AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
āA laugh-out-loud cultural comedyā¦ This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set the standard.ā āLA Times
āFunny, foxy and fleetā¦The jokes are good, the punches land, the dialogue is tart.ā āDwight 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 Janeās sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novelāa centuries-spanning epic her artist husband, Lenny, dubs her āmulatto War and Peace.ā Finally, some semblance of stability and success seems to be within her grasp.
But things donāt 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 āreal writer,ā and together they begin to develop āthe Jackie Robinson of biracial comedies.ā Things finally seem to be going right for Janeāuntil they go terribly wrong.
Funny, piercing, and page turning, Colored Television is Sennaās most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.