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

This was a good story, very well written, but I did not like It. Jane and her husband were INSUFFERABLE and their lives were chaotic. Whew! They stressed me clean out.

It was clear what was going to happen with Jane’s manuscript from the beginning, but even so I really enjoyed the humor and voice of this novel.

“Jane's father once told her that white people believed, deep in their hearts, that Black people would all choose to become white if they could. But Black people didn't want to be white, he had told her. They only wanted to have what white people had. He had said race was always about money, and money was always about race. That's what white people didn't understand. Black people wanted only a big yellow Victorian on the hill, not to be the white people who lived there.” See Jane run. To LA. After struggling with her mixed-race identity, her faultering self-confidence as a writer, her love for her husband and family, and her envy and longing for the high life. While comical at times, this is a satire that exposes some very uncomfortable things about the experience of being mixed race in America. It does so using some exaggerations and sterotypes, as well as with some ugly realities. It's pretty niche for writers or those who know the Hollywood Machine, but one can still learn something here.

Great writing! Jane and Lenny housesit in Brads house while Jane supposedly writes a novel while on sabbatical. Like life, nothing turns out as planned.

While I enjoyed the writing style, I was baffled by the points the author was attempting to make. For me, it's hard to read a book where the characters are not likeable. The main character here was not likeable in my view and I even found it hard to empathize with her. The book club had a robust discussion about this one.