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Angela Sullen
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Length
8 hours 13 minutes
Language
English
'It wasn't long before my wet and sticky fascination with life beyond the walls of our home could be read all over my face like soot'
Gabrielle has inherited the ability to change the colour of her skin from her mother, Tallulah. They guard their power carefully within the walls of a home that's been bleached completely white. This is the doing of Gabrielle's father, Robert. After battling his executive-level colleagues all day at the office as a man of colour, he needs everything in his house to be white - including his wife and daughter.
This is a house with secrets. Robert does not know that Talullah keeps a rainbow of spices stored in baggies and sewn into the lining of her handbag. Nor does he know that when he's away, Gabrielle and Tallulah let their skin pass through a spectrum of bright, dark, rebellious colours. But when Gabrielle discovers a love for the piano, she also finds she can change her skin, and find joy and acceptance, without her mother nearby. Gabrielle is learning of a world beyond her family's carefully-coded existence, and her mother is watching.
Notes on Her Colour is a novel where the strange and surreal meets the kitsch of Florida as it explores the dynamic of a family traumatised by racial violence in North America. It's a glittering, corrosive, witty tale about race, privilege, music and queerness.
At its heart, it's a story about a mother, told by her daughter.
Jennifer Neal (Author)
Jennifer Neal is an American-Australian author, musician, writer, cook, and occasional standup comedian (really) currently living in Berlin. Born in the US, she has also lived and worked in Japan, Spain, Mexico, Australia - and now, Germany. One of her career highlights was working with Anthony Bourdain (RIP) for Explore Parts Unknown. She works as a freelance translator and producer at Deutsche Welle, and her writing has appeared in Playboy, NPR, CNN, Gay Magazine, The Establishment, SBS, Atlas Obscura and many (many) other titles. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her essay 'In Search of Better Skies' in 2019, and she was a 2021 MacDowell Colony artist in residence. Her essay Good. White. Friends.T will be published in the anthology Could This Be Love? in August 2022 with InterKontinental Press.
Notes on Her Colour is her first novel, and will be published in May 2023 with Catapult US/Penguin Random House Australia. She is currently working on her second book, My Pisces Heart: A Blaxit Story, a non-fiction exploration of Black migration movements told through the lens of her own personal experience, to be published in 2024 with Catapult. She is represented by Milly Reilly at the Jo Unwin Literary Agency in London.
Angela Sullen (Reader)
Angela was born in the United States and is from Italian, African American and Cherokee heritage.
She graduated from NIDA in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) and has been working as an actor and writer. Working as a performer gave her insight into her love of voice and how to use voice to bridge the gap between identity and authentic communication, which brought her back to NIDA to complete her Master of Fine Arts in Voice.
Angela's professional d�but was as an actor in Kate Champion's collaboration with Force Majeure, Nothing To Lose, as part of Sydney Festival (2015). She also performed in Blackbirds at the Festival Fatal (2016) which she helped write and devise, which was remounted and renamed Brown Skin Girl (2018 and 2019), and Sydney Theatre Company's Mosquitoes (2019).
Angela can next be seen as series regular, Robbie, in the ABC television series, MOTHER AND SON, opposite Matt Okine and Denise Scott. Last year she starred as recurring guest star, Sarah Baker, in NBC's LA BREA. She is an actor that has equal success across stage and screen having starred in Griffin Theatre's ORANGE THROWER, STC's A RAISIN IN THE SUN, STC's MOSQUITOES and Redline's recent production of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. On screen she will be seen in the upcoming Universal film, THE FALL GUY and also had supporting roles in Goalpost's I AM WOMAN, Paramount+'s ONE NIGHT, Seven's HOME & AWAY, NBC's PIECES OF YOU and Stan's BUMP.
Jennifer Neal (Author)
Jennifer Neal is an American-Australian author, musician, writer, cook, and occasional standup comedian (really) currently living in Berlin. Born in the US, she has also lived and worked in Japan, Spain, Mexico, Australia - and now, Germany. One of her career highlights was working with Anthony Bourdain (RIP) for Explore Parts Unknown. She works as a freelance translator and producer at Deutsche Welle, and her writing has appeared in Playboy, NPR, CNN, Gay Magazine, The Establishment, SBS, Atlas Obscura and many (many) other titles. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her essay 'In Search of Better Skies' in 2019, and she was a 2021 MacDowell Colony artist in residence. Her essay Good. White. Friends.T will be published in the anthology Could This Be Love? in August 2022 with InterKontinental Press.
Notes on Her Colour is her first novel, and will be published in May 2023 with Catapult US/Penguin Random House Australia. She is currently working on her second book, My Pisces Heart: A Blaxit Story, a non-fiction exploration of Black migration movements told through the lens of her own personal experience, to be published in 2024 with Catapult. She is represented by Milly Reilly at the Jo Unwin Literary Agency in London.
Angela Sullen (Reader)
Angela was born in the United States and is from Italian, African American and Cherokee heritage.
She graduated from NIDA in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) and has been working as an actor and writer. Working as a performer gave her insight into her love of voice and how to use voice to bridge the gap between identity and authentic communication, which brought her back to NIDA to complete her Master of Fine Arts in Voice.
Angela's professional d�but was as an actor in Kate Champion's collaboration with Force Majeure, Nothing To Lose, as part of Sydney Festival (2015). She also performed in Blackbirds at the Festival Fatal (2016) which she helped write and devise, which was remounted and renamed Brown Skin Girl (2018 and 2019), and Sydney Theatre Company's Mosquitoes (2019).
Angela can next be seen as series regular, Robbie, in the ABC television series, MOTHER AND SON, opposite Matt Okine and Denise Scott. Last year she starred as recurring guest star, Sarah Baker, in NBC's LA BREA. She is an actor that has equal success across stage and screen having starred in Griffin Theatre's ORANGE THROWER, STC's A RAISIN IN THE SUN, STC's MOSQUITOES and Redline's recent production of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. On screen she will be seen in the upcoming Universal film, THE FALL GUY and also had supporting roles in Goalpost's I AM WOMAN, Paramount+'s ONE NIGHT, Seven's HOME & AWAY, NBC's PIECES OF YOU and Stan's BUMP.