Colored Television
SKU
9760593544374
ISBN
9780593544372

Colored Television

$29.00
Author
Senna, Danzy

A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identityā€“industrial complex

Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friendā€™s luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Janeā€™s sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel, Nusu Nusu, the centuries-spanning epic Lenny refers to as her ā€œmulatto War and Peace,ā€ sheā€™ll have tenure and some semblance of stability and success within her grasp.

But things donā€™t work out quite as hoped. In search of a plan B, like countless writers before her Jane turns her desperate gaze to Hollywood. When she finagles a meeting with a hot young producer with a seven-figure deal to create ā€œdiverse contentā€ for a streaming network, he seems excited to work with a ā€œreal writerā€ to create what he envisions as the greatest biracial comedy ever to hit the small screen. Things finally seem to be going right for Janeā€”until they go terribly wrong.

Funny, piercing, and page-turning, this is Sennaā€™s most on-the-money novel yet.

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