Colored Television
There’s a lot in this book that touched a nerve for me (namely, bouncing around rentals with young children due to affordability and/or landlord nastiness…been there, done that in NYC and Dublin) and there’s a lot that may touch a nerve for others that I can’t necessarily relate to (navigating different cultures as a biracial person), but for me, Colored Television is mostly a look at the arc of hating something (the system, the powers that be, the literary establishment, Hollywood) to loving something (that would be one’s small life despite all the aforementioned “hates”). Maybe that assessment is too much of a television ending; I’m loathe to compare this book by Danzy Senna to one by her husband, Percival Everett (Erasure, the novel on which the movie American Fiction is based), but…I think it would be fantastic to read them concurrently and pontificate on what kind of open-ended “reality” they might actually be espousing.
(I absolutely loved this novel.)
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