Danzy Senna’s latest book, “Colored Television,” sends ... followed two biracial sisters born in 1970s Boston who are separated by their parents and whose lives take very different paths.

Then, they had “the ugliest divorce in Boston’s history.” Growing up, Senna shuttled between her parents’ households, attending public school in the midst of Boston’s desegregation crisis.

Danzy Senna’s acerbic satires of art and money ... The memoir was a roving investigation of ancestry and a sobering appraisal of her parents’ infamous marriage. Senna descends from literary ...