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 . . . A remarkable portrait of the artist as a young woman.Observer

[Leilani] is a caustic, funny and skilful storyteller, taking us deeply and convincingly inside the head of a millennial woman frantically trying to make sense of the world and her place within it.Sunday Times

In this cutting, hot-blooded book, the entanglements that unfold are as complicated as they are heartbreaking.New Statesman

With deadpan wit and remarkable talent, Raven Leilani effortlessly exposes the chasms between generations, faces and genders.Vogue