One Book, One Block is a quarterly community reads program that encourages conversation and connection through shared reading experiences on Larchmont Blvd!

Join Chevalier’s Books for our first One Book, One Block Community Reads program! Read Colored Television by Danzy Senna in the month of October, then join the author for a discussion of the book on October 28 at 7 pm at the Ebell of Los Angeles.

Admission is free with the purchase of Colored Television from Chevalier’s Books, or via the ticket below (your book can then be picked up in store or at the event). Aditional admissions are $10.

ABOUT THE BOOK

A brilliant take on 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.” Finally, some semblance of stability and success seems to be within her grasp.

But things don’t work out quite as hoped. Desperate for a plan B, like countless writers before her Jane turns her gaze to Hollywood. When she finagles a meeting with Hampton Ford, a hot producer with a major development deal at a streaming network, he seems excited to work with a “real writer,” and together they begin to develop “the Jackie Robinson of biracial comedies.” Things finally seem to be going right for Jane—until they go terribly wrong.

Funny, piercing, and page turning, Colored Television is Senna’s most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.

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