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No one wants what no one wants. And how do we even know what we want? How do we know we’re ready to take it? Edie 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 is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. More about this book >
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Raven Leilani is the author of Luster. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, the recipient of the 2020 Kirkus Prize, VCU Cabell First Novel Prize, National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize, Clark Fiction Prize, Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and she is a recipient of a 2025 Cullman Fellowship. She has published in n+1, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, and she teaches creative writing at Harvard.
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