"As fearless as she is funny Danzy Senna is one of this country's most thrilling writers."
Rumaan Alam author of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND "Senna writes with tenderness about the
debasement of aspiration and renders with acuity the mad place in the mind where fixation and
avoidance are joined." Raven Leilani author of LUSTER 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. "I couldn't stop turning the pages and only when it was all over did I realize what
Senna had done . . . a very modern reckoning." Miranda July author of ALL FOURS and THE FIRST
BAD MAN "Twisty turny and refreshingly relatable." Mateo Askaripour author of BLACK BUCK
