The novel is about the life of novelist Jane and her painter husband Lenny.
"Colored Television" by Danzy Senna, the author behind "Caucasia" and "New People," named a best book of the year by the New York Times Book Review, is our "GMA" Book Club pick for September.
According to publisher Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group, "what ensues is a darkly funny ride that explores who gets a say in what 'diverse content' looks like and how career ambitions and artistry interact with marriage, motherhood, and class."Shop Now Multicultural Mayberry was only about fifteen minutes from downtown Los Angeles, but it felt like a different world altogether.Gone was the Manson Family Helter Skelter vibe of the hills.Gone was the relentless existential hum of the freeway, the racial blight of the LAPD, the handsome lying face of O. J. Simpson and the blank, bewildered face of his murdered wife, Nicole.Gone were the Menéndez brothers and the white vigilante Michael Douglas played in Falling Down.
She could see why the filmmakers loved it here. And boy did they love it. Every time Jane came, she saw some street blocked by a craft food-service truck or a phalanx of film equipment. Jane had done her research. Apparently, when you owned the right kind of house in Multicultural Mayberry you could make money renting it out for film and commercial shoots.
He thought they should spend the time looking for a rental in Burbank. He'd shown Jane a few he had found online. They were hideous. It grew in branches that flowed out from the trunk. Which meant you couldn't just enter a conversation talking about something random or you would break away from the tree.
They were talking to a white hippie couple with a Labradoodle puppy. The hippie mother was a blonde beach babe type, and beside her was a handsome, shirtless dad wearing board shorts.
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