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Danzy Senna, author of Colored Television

Jane 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 that 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, 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.

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Week of July 14, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of July 14th include T. Kingfisher's A SORCERESS COMES TO CALL, a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's "The Goose Girl," rife with secrets, murder and forbidden magic; COLORED TELEVISION, a brilliant dark comedy from Danzy Senna about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial complex; THE CORE OF AN ONION by Mark Kurlansky, a delectable look at the cultural, historical and gastronomical layers of one of the world's most beloved culinary staples --- featuring original illustrations and recipes from around the world; Hyeseung Song's DOCILE, a searing coming-of-age memoir about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth; and the paperback original EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU by Jo Piazza,   an explosive thriller about two estranged friends, a grisly murder, a sudden disappearance, and the truly shocking revelation that everyone is lying to you about something.  

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