![]() ![]() It will be interesting to see how long this new sensitivity to touching will last in our collective psyche as we eventually move past the pandemic, but that’s a whole other blog post in itself. Reading it through the lens of the pandemic is an experience in itself because the main character is a very physical person, so I vacillated between jealousy and disgust as she touched her way through the story. It’s about a lot of things being a young black American woman, being a young broke millennial, navigating the punishing life of a gig worker, and always feeling like an outsider. ![]() Although very different from what I expected it to be, (it was very lyrical, almost like a poem), Luster by Raven Leilani is everything I had hoped for frustrating, disheartening, beautiful and heartbreaking. I’ve had this book on my shelf for awhile now and I didn’t get to it earlier because of other reading commitments, but I was really excited to finally dive in because a) it’s been getting exceptional reviews and b) I loved another book similar to it, Queenie. ![]()
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