01706nam a22002057a 4500008004100000020001800041040000800059041000800067100002500075245004000100260003600140300002400176520109800200650002101298650003201319650003601351650003501387650004001422651003801462250702b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780349705033  ctbs  aeng  aSenna, Danzyeauthor  a Colored televisionc/ Danzy Senna.  aLondon,bDialogue Books,c2024.  a276 pages :c24 cm.  aJane 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. 0aAuthorsvFiction 0aLife change eventsvFiction 0aAfrican American womenvFiction 0aRacially mixed peoplevFiction 0aAfrican AmericansxHistoryvFiction 0aLos Angeles (California)vFiction