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"A riveting and exhilarating novel about making art and selling out ... Senna is one of this country's most thrilling writers." -Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind. A brilliant dark comedy about 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.