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A literary free-for-all book discussion group.
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The Chapters book group typically meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7:15pm.
We discuss short, contemporary literary fiction and we will be meeting in person and on Zoom.
In July we are reading...
Register for the Zoom information for the discussion of Colored Television by Danzy Senna, or join us in person on July 8th at 7:15pm:
https://newcity.librarycalendar.com/event/chapters-book-club-discusses-51794
https://newcity.librarycalendar.com/event/chapters-book-club-discusses-51794
Reading Now: Colored Television by Danzy Senna - July 8th @ 7:15pm
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Colored Television (a GMA Book Club Pick) by
ISBN: 9780593544372Publication Date: 2024-09-03A 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 "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.