Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel
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- Synopsis
- AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK&“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 CaucasiaJane 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 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 &“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.
- Copyright:
- 2024
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 288 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593544396
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780593544372
- Publisher:
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 10/08/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Danzy Senna
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.