Colored Television

"Snarky and wry and funny and darkly comic."

"Danzy Senna has earned a stellar reputation for her discerning reflections on the experience of being Black and biracial in an aspirationally post-racial America. Her exhilarating, satirical fourth novel, Colored Television, is one of the sharpest, most viscerally entertaining novels I’ve read in years. Jane is a literary novelist who’s sick of living in genteel, precarious poverty in the cold shadow of Hollywood’s dream factory. When her spectacularly esoteric, centuries-spanning saga of mixed-race history (a “mulatto War and Peace”) doesn’t sell, she launches a perilous yet hilarious bid to become a TV writer instead. It’s a wild and poignant ride."