{"product_id":"colored-television-hc","title":"Colored Television HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2026 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A laugh-out-loud cultural comedy… This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set the standard.” –\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLA Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Funny, foxy and fleet…The jokes are good, the punches land, the dialogue is tart.” –Dwight Garner, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCaucasia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWar and Peace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eColored Television\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Senna’s most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51995426750695,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/41IhaEKPg4L.webp?v=1776721962","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/colored-television-hc","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}