Luster
A Novel
by Raven Leilani
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“As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did. | Great review of a great book | This book really is something special dirty and true, often painful, often funny. I ate it up in a single evening.”
Source →“As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did. | Great review of a great book | This book really is something special dirty and true, often painful, often funny. I ate it up in a single evening.”
Source →“As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did. | Great review of a great book | This book really is something special dirty and true, often painful, often funny. I ate it up in a single evening.”
Source →Recommended by 5 notable people, including Barack Obama and Emily Ratajkowski
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Fiction.
Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriageEdie is stumbling her way through her twenties—sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She's also, secretly, haltingly fi...
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“As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share my annual lists of favorites. I’ll start by sharing my favorite books this year. I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did. | Great review of a great book | This book really is something special dirty and true, often painful, often funny. I ate it up in a single evening.”
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