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** Winner of the 2025 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION | Finalist for the 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION | Longlisted for the 2025 JOYCE CAROL OATES LITERARY PRIZE, the 2024 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FICTION PRIZE and the 2025 CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION ** 'I LOVED this fresh, funny story . . . A true page-turner' Daily Mail 'Addictive, hilarious and relatable' Miranda July, author of All Fours '[A] gem from Danzy Senna . . . Perceptive and bitingly funny' Vanity Fair 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. Reader reviews: 'A fantastic novel . . . funny and ironic and clever' ★★★★★ 'A clever satire . . . If you enjoyed Yellowface, you'll likely appreciate Senna's ability to blend humour with uncomfortable truths' ★★★★★ 'So sharp & funny & MESSY . . . I could not wait to see how this one turned out and had a ball reading it' ★★★★★