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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.
About the Author
Danzy Senna is an American novelist, born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970. Her parents, Carl Senna, an Afro-Mexican poet and author, and Fanny Howe, who is Irish-American writer, were also civil rights activists. She attended Stanford University and received an MFA from the University of California at Irvine. There, she received several creative writing awards. Her debut novel, Caucasia (later republished as From Caucasia With Love) , was well received and won several awards including the Book-Of-The-Month Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, and the Alex Award from the American Library Association. Her second novel, Symptomatic, was also well received. Both books feature a biracial protagonist and offer a unique view on life from their perspective. Senna has also contributed to anthologies such as Gumbo. In 2002, Senna received the Whiting Writers Award and in 2004 was named a Fellow for the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. Danzy Senna is married to fellow writer and they have a son, Henry together. Their residences have included Los Angeles and New York City.
