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Colored Television (a GMA Book Club Pick)

Colored Television (a GMA Book Club Pick)

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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK SEPT 2024

“A laugh-out-loud cultural comedy… This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set the standard.”  –
LA Times

“Funny, foxy and fleet…The jokes are good, the punches land, the dialogue is tart.” –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 Jane’s sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novel—a centuries-spanning epic her artist husband, Lenny, dubs her “mulatto 
War and Peace.” Finally, some semblance of stability and success seems to be within her grasp.

But things don’t work out quite as hoped. Desperate for a plan B, like countless writers before her Jane turns her gaze to Hollywood. When she finishes a meeting with Hampton Ford, a hot producer with a major development deal at a streaming network, he seems excited to work with a “real writer,” and together they begin to develop “the Jackie Robinson of biracial comedies.” Things finally seem to be going right for Jane—until they go terribly wrong.

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

ISBN: 0593544374    EAN: 9780593544372
Author: Danzy Senna
Publisher: Riverhead Books 
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: September 03, 2024
Physical Info: 1.0" H x 9.29" L x 6.3" W (1.02 lbs) 288 pages
This item is Returnable

About The Author:
Danzy Senna is the author of four previous works of fiction, including the bestselling Caucasia and, most recently, New People, as well as a memoir. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, she teaches writing at the University of Southern California.
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