
Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel

Lenny had always seen them as a pair of artists, which was the most feminist thing about him. He found her sexier the closer she came to reaching her full potential. He wanted them both to soar.
Danzy Senna • Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel
The thing about being a woman, a mother, a wife, was that if you wanted to be any more than those things you had to hire another wife. Somebody had to be the wife in a family. Rich women got to pay somebody else to be them—a stunt double to make it look like they were doing everything well when, in fact, they were doing only the fun parts.
Danzy Senna • Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel
Jane had been in New York for ten years at that point. She’d moved there after college, still believing that her life would unfold in a certain order. First, she would launch her career, then, after a series of difficult but teachable-moment love affairs, she would meet The One—her future mate—and settle down somewhere outside the city where they
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And just this morning they actually had morning sex. She didn’t know how it had happened exactly. The sky was only just beginning to lighten, and one of them had rolled over and touched the other in just the right way before they’d fully emerged from their dreams. They’d made love just like old times, a sweet, somnolent love that built into a kind
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Her married sister always said serial monogamy was like being a slow-cooker ho.
Danzy Senna • Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel
“Let’s get out of this place, Jane,” he said, in the same soft voice. “Let’s leave this country. It’s not going to go well. You know that. It never has.”
Danzy Senna • Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel
Jennifer Beals?”
Danzy Senna • Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick): A Novel
“Doogie Howser,