Senna, who is mixed-race, has made a career satirizing the lives of characters like her. Her new novel takes elements from ...

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Delightfully absurd exchanges like this are a fixture of Senna’s droll and carefully observed fiction. She writes with a ...

Danzy Senna's new novel is an exhilarating yet poignant riff on the struggling artist as a wannabe middle-aged sellout. The ...

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