Colored Television: A Novel Barnes Noble Book Club Edition by Danzy Senna

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This Barnes Noble Exclusive Edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and New York Times bestselling novelist, Rumaan Alam, as well as a reader's guide. "A riveting and exhilarating novel about making art and selling out Senna is one of this country most thrilling writers. Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind A brilliant dark comedy about 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 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

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    • Danzy Senna Author
    • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
    • Publication Date: 09-03-2024
    • Page Count: 288
    • Hardcover
    • Fiction
    • 8.9 (w) x 6.3(h) x 1.1 (d)
    • ISBN: 9798217044856
    • Imported

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8 months ago
from Long Beach, California

Another Step Backward for Black Culture

Any time someone takes front stage to illuminate an underrepresented group (in this case mixed race Blacks) I hope and pray that it’s handled with deep consideration and care. Nope. Disappointingly, this author continues with tropes that mixed race Blacks are conflicted, wayward, coveting, unscrupulous, vapid, etc. Even goes so far to refer to the vast and varying collective as “mulattos” - and she means it. Super sad how fiction writers (and apparently instructors) have trended towards passing their real lives off as “fiction” by altering a few details here and there. Whatever happened to the craft of building new ideas, new characters, new worlds? Instead we get a thinly veiled re-telling of a not-so-interesting vaguely bi-racial woman’s entanglement with Kenya Barris. Add to that the out dated ideas of: Black women “hot combing” their hair to look presentable and the inaccurate nods to Black culture “Can We Talk” by Tevin Campbell was released in the NINETIES. The narrator’s tendency to give every character the same accent didn’t help either. I suffered through this one. So detached and singular- should have been a memoir.

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11 months ago
from B&N Home Office

Bingeable Book!

You will want to marathon this book. I ended up reading this within 24 hours because I was so hooked from the get go. Jane is a novelist who is trying her hardest not to be a one hit wonder when she gets sucked into the topsy-turvy world of Hollywood. I loved the view points on race and how neighbors who live across the street could be living very different lives.

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12 months ago
from Allen Park, MI

B&N Book Brandoned: No More Black & White

Danzy Senna - well let me tell you this is a book you will not only love but find so relevant and timely you will go along these characters journey without question. A darkly brilliant comedy of errors, where personal and racial identity fill this story with amazing color.

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