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Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel

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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 FINALIST FOR THE 2026 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE “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. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Riverhead Books


Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 3, 2024


Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593544374


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 72


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.2 x 1 x 9.3 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #225,158 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,195 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction #1,957 in Black & African American Women's Fiction (Books) #2,281 in Literary Fiction (Books)


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • Unexpectedly good!
Format: Kindle
I was prepared to be annoyed, wondering if this woman, so wrapped up in herself could move on. The good news is she survived, she learned and became a better human for it.
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2025 by Amiptc
    • Read it for the biting wit and the sharp social commentary
Format: Kindle
This book is funny. Hilariously funny. Jane, biracial, though she prefers mulatto, child of a white mother and Black father, and her Black husband Lenny are a financially struggling artistic couple. She hasn’t sold a novel in forever and nobody is buying his paintings. When her second novel gets rejected, she decides to go full Hollywood, hoping to adapt it into a TV series. She, Lenny, and their two kids are housesitting at a showrunner friend’s dreamy Hollywood Hills house, she pretends to fit into this world while she locks herself away in the study hoping some of his success will rub off on her. Jane’s forte is writing what she knows, however, things take a turn for the worse as she attempts to straddle different worlds, an imposter who succumbs to dishonesty and deceit in this community of ambition and avarice, Jane finds herself in too deep. Senna deftly handles the subject of mixed-race identity (she has a white mother and a Black father), but that’s not all. She approaches the story with wry humor and truth, forcing the reader to look intently, rather than away. Though comedy abounds, the struggle with race and identity is at the forefront. Read it for the biting wit and the sharp social commentary. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2024 by carilynp
    • A tragedy...of sorts
Format: Kindle
Firstly, I do like the story. It's hopeful. I was rooting for the protagonist, for her book, for her tenure. Then, it got strange, and it went tragic--but not all the way tragic, justhighly unfortunate. Then, it just was what it was. It's a cautionary tale. She got a little close to the sun, but she avoided full combustion. So much was left unanswered, so we are left to hope that everyone got what they deserved... whatever that is. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2025 by Amazon Customer
    • Very well written book but disappointed by the ending
Format: Hardcover
I Liked the writing style but I was disappointed beyond expected it to be funnier than it was. I found it depressing because I expected the ending to be better than it was. I expected the heroine to become wildly successful when her book became a television series. She spent so much time on the book and dreaming up plots for the series that she deserved to be successful. None of the success materialized and that seems so unfair. It bummed me out. But reading other reviews, they claim that this industry is not a kind one and the outcome is not atypical. I feel that the author is a bit unkind and critical of white folks who did nothing to cause harm or problems to our mulatto heroine and her black family. I would have given it more stars had it not been for this unnecessary meanness to white folk. I couldn’t put this book down because it’s very well written and I was dying to get to the ending to see Jane succeed and when she doesn’t I wanted to cry., That’s a well written book! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2025 by Suzanne A Ries
    • very good read
Format: Kindle
Colored Television is an engaging read - interesting on many levels- highly recommend it as a good book to include on your reading list
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2025 by Linda Meisel
    • Funny at the expense of your whiteness
Format: Hardcover
I'm in an interracial marriage, and we live in Los Angeles. I thought this book would strike some familiar chords, and it does. Senna is a funny writer. Her characters are real and flawed. I didn't always like them, but I understood them. The book made me laugh. But just be aware that she takes a lot of cheap shots at white people (I'm certain she and her author husband are chuckling, reading this -- how predictable I must seem to them!). It surprised me, as I believe Senna is of mixed race. Maybe I missed the satire. And she's not always wrong. But just as a sort of PSA, if this kind of racial commentary bothers you, you might not want to spend for the hardback. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2024 by A Reader
    • Surprised
Format: Kindle
This was very well written! I was so engaged with the flow of the story and also, enraged for the main characters sake. I left off one star because the story line grew stale by the end.
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2025 by FB
    • Very good read!
Format: Hardcover
I saw this book on GMA book club and bought the same say. The book arrived quickly. I did not think I would enjoy it this much. The author does an excellent job at storytelling; telling the complexity of navigating biracial culture professionally and personally. I enjoyed the history in the book and the real and raw way the protagonist grapples with decisions as she navigates this culturally complex world amidst the cutthroat world of book writing/publishing. As a published author and journalist, I understand this world very well! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2024 by JD

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