{"product_id":"colored-television-a-gma-book-club-pick-isbn-9780593544372","title":"Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick)","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA NATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A laugh-out-loud cultural comedy… This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set the standard.”  –\u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Funny, foxy and fleet…The jokes are good, the punches land, the dialogue is tart.” –Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant take on love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCaucasia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane 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 \u003ci\u003eWar and Peace.\u003c\/i\u003e” Finally, some semblance of stability and success seems to be within her grasp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFunny, piercing, and page turning, \u003ci\u003eColored Television\u003c\/i\u003e is Senna’s most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eColored Television\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eTIME \u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, \u003ci\u003eTHE LOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK POST\u003c\/i\u003e, ELECTRIC LITERARTURE AND MORE!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2025 PEN\/FAULKNER AWARD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 JOYCE CAROL OATES LITERARY PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FICTION PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There is no one else who writes like Senna. In all her books she tackles so many different subjects, all the while telling a story with characters so real and compelling you never think about how many ideas are being developed, and discussed, only that you want to find out what happens next, and how the ideas and the characters and the story will coalesce, all the way up until the last page, when you won’t want it to have to end.\"\u003cb\u003e—Tommy Orange, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Delightfully head spinning. Senna unfurls a novel that somehow deconstructs its own racial preoccupations, as though she’s riding a unicycle up and down a set of Escher staircases…The way [she] keeps this wry story aloft may be the closest paper can come to levitation.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[A] cutting exploration of an artist’s striving and dreaming and flailing in the shadow of Hollywood’s dream factory. . . exhilarating yet poignant. . .endlessly quotable and intensely, meaningfully provocative. . .Senna's ungentle satire masterfully explores and explodes the psyche . . .of a woman trying to level up on family, work and race in a post-post-racial America.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eNPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[A] searing look at personal authenticity, the struggles of a creative life, and the powerful impact of racial identity.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[A] tart, incisive portrait—both of the country and of the narcissistic task of self-commodification.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A sharp, hilarious page-turner about art, identity and the cost of success.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Suspenseful and funny, caustic and hilarious.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Book Reporter \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“This clever, itchy-making, and often hilarious novel is unsparing on identity-driven fiction and creative working conditions under capitalism.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—LitHub \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Droll and carefully observed fiction. [Senna] writes with a committed irreverence about biracial women and the social worlds and identities they straddle, and she dutifully avoids respectability or sentimentality. . . dilates into a fever dream as expansive as the Los Angeles metropolis.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The New Republic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hilarious.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] gem from Danzy Senna—more perceptive and bitingly funny than ever.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With one hilarious scene and outrageous observation after another, Senna hits it out of the park.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Funny, foxy and fleet. . .The jokes are good, the punches land, the dialogue is tart. The characters in \u003ci\u003eColored Television\u003c\/i\u003e are wonderful talkers; they’re wits and improvisers who clock the absurdities of the human condition. You often feel you’re listening in on a three-bottles-into-it dinner party.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Senna’s humor mixes with her deep understanding of cultural foibles and the human heart to produce a novel that is simultaneously a laugh-out-loud cultural comedy and a riveting novel of ideas . . . .The complexity of all of these issues contained in a single novel might have intimidated a lesser writer. Senna turns what could have been heavy into a celebratory triumph filled with joy and love. . . This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set the standard.\u003cb\u003e”—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The biting, incisive, and hilarious \u003ci\u003eColored Television\u003c\/i\u003e. . . skewers Hollywood culture while offering a thoughtful take on how creatives balance making art with making a living.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReal Simple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A no-holds-barred satire of literary ambition and Hollywood seduction with a racing human heart. . .With her sharp eye and take-no-prisoners humor, Senna exposes both the specific absurdities of the publishing world and the universal absurdities of trying—and inevitably failing—to have it all.”—\u003cb\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] brilliant, of-the-moment, just really almost perfect book.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kirkus Reviews, STARRED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A complex and satisfying portrait of a woman struggling with the categories that define her.” \u003cb\u003e–\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I couldn’t stop turning the pages, and only when it was all over did I realize what Senna had done. Addictive, hilarious and relatable, yes, but \u003ci\u003eColored Television\u003c\/i\u003e is after something larger and more elusive, a very modern reckoning with the ambiguities triangulated by race, class, creativity and love. She nails it.\"\u003cb\u003e—Miranda July, author of \u003ci\u003eAll Fours \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The First Bad Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A riveting and exhilarating novel about making art and selling out, about being middle aged and precariously middle class. As fearless as she is funny, Danzy Senna is one of this country’s most thrilling writers.”\u003cb\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eRumaan Alam, author of \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hilarious. Senna writes with tenderness about the debasement of aspiration, and she renders with acuity the mad place in the mind where fixation meets avoidance.\" \u003cb\u003e—Raven Leilani, author of \u003ci\u003eLuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“If you thought California was burning before, wait until you read how literary arsonist Danzy Senna gleefully incinerates its values through the eyes of Jane Gibson—a heroine whose insecurity, mistakes, and lies will keep you riveted from start to finish.” \u003cb\u003e—James Hannaham, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eDelicious Foods\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eNobody Gives a Shit What Happened to Carlotta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Twisty, turny, and refreshingly relatable. 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