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 fleetThe 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 Janes sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novela 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 dont 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 Janeuntil they go terribly wrong.

Funny, piercing, and page turning, Colored Television is Sennas most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.