Penguin Random House, Belletristik, Colored Television (Englisch, Danzy Senna, 2024)

&ldquo A laugh-out-loud cultural comedy&hellip This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set the standard.&rdquo &ndash LA Times &ldquo Funny, foxy and fleet&hellip The jokes are good, the punches land, the dialogue is tart.&rdquo &ndash 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&rsquo s sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novel&mdash a centuries-spanning epic her artist husband, Lenny, dubs her &ldquo mulatto War and Peace.&rdquo Finally, some semblance of stability and success seems to be within her grasp. But things don&rsquo 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 &ldquo real writer,&rdquo and together they begin to develop &ldquo the Jackie Robinson of biracial comedies.&rdquo Things finally seem to be going right for Jane&mdash until they go terribly wrong. Funny, piercing, and page turning, Colored Television is Senna&rsquo s most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.