AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK “A laugh-out-loud
cultural comedy… This is the New Great American Novel and Danzy Senna has set the standard.”
– LA Times “Funny foxy and fleet…The jokes are good the punches land the dialogue is
tart.” –Dwight Garner The New York Times A brilliant take on 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’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. Funny piercing and page turning
Colored Television is Senna’s most on-the-pulse ambitious and rewarding novel yet.
