{"title":"Danzy Senna","description":"Danzy Senna is the author of four previous works of fiction, including the bestselling Caucasia and, most recently, New People, as well as a memoir. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, she teaches writing at the University of Southern California.","products":[{"product_id":"colored-television-paperback","title":"Colored Television - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \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 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFunny, piercing, and page turning, \u003ci\u003eColored Television\u003c\/i\u003e is Senna's most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101212381407,"sku":"9780593544389","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KIwDeq2w8k9780593544389.webp?v=1781068480"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/danzy-senna.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}