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Colored Television (a GMA Book Club Pick)
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"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 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.
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Book Details
ISBN:
9780593544372
EAN:
9780593544372
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
288
Authors:
Danzy Senna
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Published Date: 2024-03-09
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I was prepared to be annoyed, wondering if this woman, so wrapped up in herself could move on. The good news is she survived, she learned and became a better human for it.
This was very well written! I was so engaged with the flow of the story and also, enraged for the main characters sake. I left off one star because the story line grew stale by the end.
Great read! I could barely put it down. The author's use of words to describe the scenes made it easy to see it with my mind's eye.
I really liked it. A very accurate description of La La land with its solitude and egocentric manipulative people. Good read.
The first two chapters of the novel suggest that it will explore what it means to be of mixed race in America. However, the novel devolves into simply being a commentary of Los Angeles culture, similar to the manner in which The Nanny Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada are commentary on NYC culture. Ultimately, like the protagonists in the NY-based novels, the protagonist in Colored Television decides to forge her own path, not part of high-end Los Angeles culture, and appears to live happily ever after. But never having lived in LA, Colored Television interested me less than The Nanny Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada.
