Luster: A Novel [Paperback]

ANEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
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WINNER of the NBCC John Leonard Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award

AN INSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER
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So delicious that it feels illicit . . . Raven Leilanis first novel reads like summer: sentences like ice that crackle or melt into a languorous drip; plot suddenly, wildly flying forward like a bike down a hill. Jazmine Hughes,The New York Times Book Review

An irreverent intergenerational tale of race and class thats blisteringly smart and fan-yourself sexy. Michelle Hart, O: The Oprah Magazine

No one wants what no one wants.
And how do we even know what we want? How do we know were ready to take it?

Edie is stumbling her way through her twentiessharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a seril³3