This acerbic debut, about a young black woman’s relationship with a rich white couple, will be among the year’s best Luster sails into 2021 on clouds of praise, vapour trails of hype streaming behind it. “The most delicious novel I’ve read,” says Candice Carty-Williams ; “brutal – and brilliant” opines Zadie Smith . Perhaps she would say that, being Raven Leilani ’s mentor and former tutor at NYU....

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