{"product_id":"colored-television","title":"Colored Television","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2026 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFunny, piercing, and page turning, \u003ci\u003eColored Television\u003c\/i\u003e is Senna's most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45917440114861,"sku":"9780593544389","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/6954\/9997\/files\/imageloader_3fec9c34-cdc7-421a-a426-350255ff1da2.jpg?v=1776432086","url":"https:\/\/thirdspacereadingroom.com\/products\/colored-television","provider":"ThirdSpace Reading Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}