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

Quotes

• “A laugh-out-loud cultural comedy.”

  — Los Angeles Times

• “Skewers Hollywood culture while offering a thoughtful take on how creatives balance making art with making a living.”

  — Real Simple

• “A no-holds-barred satire of literary ambition and Hollywood seduction with a racing human heart.”

  — Oprah Daily

• “The jokes are good, the punches land, the dialogue is tart.”

  — New York Times

• “Funny, foxy and fleet. . .The jokes are good, the punches land, the dialogue is tart. The characters in Colored Television are wonderful talkers; they’re wits and improvisers who clock the absurdities of the human condition. You often feel you’re listening in on a three-bottles-into-it dinner party.

  — The New York Times

• “The biting, incisive, and hilarious Colored Television. . . skewers Hollywood culture while offering a thoughtful take on how creatives balance making art with making a living.

  — Real Simple “A no-holds-barred satire of literary ambition and Hollywood seduction with a racing human heart. . .With her sharp eye and take-no-prisoners humor, Senna exposes both the specific absurdities of the publishing world and the universal absurdities of trying—and inevitably failing—to have it all.

• [A] brilliant, of-the-moment, just really almost perfect book.

  — Kirkus Reviews, STARRED

• “A complex and satisfying portrait of a woman struggling with the categories that define her.

  — Publishers Weekly

• I couldn’t stop turning the pages, and only when it was all over did I realize what Senna had done. Addictive, hilarious and relatable, yes, but Colored Television is after something larger and more elusive, a very modern reckoning with the ambiguities triangulated by race, class, creativity and love. She nails it.

  — Miranda July, author of All Fours and The First Bad Man

• A riveting and exhilarating novel about making art and selling out, about being middle aged and precariously middle class. As fearless as she is funny, Danzy Senna is one of this country’s most thrilling writers.

  — Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind

• Hilarious. Senna writes with tenderness about the debasement of aspiration, and she renders with acuity the mad place in the mind where fixation meets avoidance.

  — Raven Leilani, author of Luster

• “If you thought California was burning before, wait until you read how literary arsonist Danzy Senna gleefully incinerates its values through the eyes of Jane Gibson—a heroine whose insecurity, mistakes, and lies will keep you riveted from start to finish.

  — James Hannaham, author of Delicious Foods and Nobody Gives a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

• “Twisty, turny, and refreshingly relatable. You'll read and wonder, ‘Is she in my head?’ I adore this novel.

  — Mateo Askaripour, author of Black Buck

• Hilarious.

  — Boston Globe

• [A] gem from Danzy Senna—more perceptive and bitingly funny than ever.

  — Vanity Fair

• With one hilarious scene and outrageous observation after another, Senna hits it out of the park.

  — Newsday

• Funny, foxy and fleet. . .The jokes are good, the punches land, the dialogue is tart. The characters in Colored Television are wonderful talkers; they’re wits and improvisers who clock the absurdities of the human condition. You often feel you’re listening in on a three-bottles-into-it dinner party.

  — The New York Times

• Delightfully head spinning. Senna unfurls a novel that somehow deconstructs its own racial preoccupations, as though she’s riding a unicycle up and down a set of Escher staircases…The way [she] keeps this wry story aloft may be the closest paper can come to levitation.

  — The Washington Post

• Delightfully head spinning. Senna unfurls a novel that somehow deconstructs its own racial preoccupations, as though she’s riding a unicycle up and down a set of Escher staircases…The way [she] keeps this wry story aloft may be the closest paper can come to levitation.

  — The Washington Post

• “[A] cutting exploration of an artist’s striving and dreaming and flailing in the shadow of Hollywood’s dream factory. . . exhilarating yet poignant. . .endlessly quotable and intensely, meaningfully provocative. . .Senna's ungentle satire masterfully explores and explodes the psyche . . .of a woman trying to level up on family, work and race in a post-post-racial America.

  — NPR

• “Droll and carefully observed fiction. [Senna] writes with a committed irreverence about biracial women and the social worlds and identities they straddle, and she dutifully avoids respectability or sentimentality. . . dilates into a fever dream as expansive as the Los Angeles metropolis.

  — The New Republic