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Luster

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Description for Luster Paperback.

Razor sharp, provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster by Raven Leilani is a painfully funny debut.

'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal–and brilliant.' - Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth

'A book of pure fineness, exceptional.' – Diana Evans, Guardian

Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Debut of the Year
Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction


Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781529035995
SKU
9781529035995
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2

About Raven Leilani
Raven Leilani’s work has been published in Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and The Cut, among other publications. Leilani received her MFA from NYU and was the Axinn Foundation Writer in Residence there. Luster is her first novel.

Reviews for Luster
Leilani’s story of Edie, a broke 23-year-old black woman who gets involved with a wealthy older white couple, cuts to the quick of the often grim realities of being young and black in the US today. But it’s wincingly funny, too . . . Leilani’s prose mesmerises; you go with her, wherever she decides to take you . . . ... Read more

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