'Colored Television' is an ungentle satire set in post-post-racial America
Briefly

"Jane is desperately trying to break out of genteel poverty through her writing, first, by finishing her second novel, a spectacularly unsaleable centuries-spanning saga of mixed-race history..."
"With lacerating humor and a multitude of similarly revealing moments, Colored Television illuminates the axes around which its novelist protagonist Jane's life teeters. Race is one; so are marriage, parenting, money and art..."
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