A review by clarafoster
Luster by Raven Leilani

5.0

This book hurts. Like, it really hurts. It is lonely and angry and lovely all at once, rendered with such casual precision that you can't help but watch as it looks back at you and says all the things you are too scared to say but nevertheless know to be true. Leilani's searing, idiosyncratic prose walks you through a few months in the life of her protagonist. By the end, you are at once back where you started and also utterly changed, as is she. I cannot remember the last time a book has made me cry like this has made me cry. I just don't have the words.
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