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"A riveting and exhilarating novel about making art and selling out…Senna is one of this country’s most thrilling writers.” –Rumaan Alam, author of A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of 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 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,

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Danzy Senna, Senna Danzy
• Editore: Riverhead
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.09.2024
• EAN: 9780593854952
• ISBN: 978-0-593-85495-2
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 151 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / African American & Black / Women, Relating to African American / Black American people, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family