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The debut novel from Raven Leilani tackles it all: race, class, sex, depression, loneliness, and New York City. Edie, the narrator, is a 23-year-old black orphan trying to figure it out. After making some inappropriate sexual choices, she loses her admin job in the publishing industry and finds herself with nowhere to go - until the wife of her married lover takes her in. Her relationships are fraught and strange, warm and raw. The voice is honest and sharpโa must-read.
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Luster by Raven Leilani - Edie starts hooking up with a married middle aged white man and moves in with his wife and daughter. HBO needs to hurry up with that adaptation they announced.
Severance by Ling Ma - Candance Chen grapples with her unfulling life and job as a virus begins to spread and turns people into these zombie-like indivuals. Released in 2018 but somehow encapsulates a lot of that COVID quarantine panic.
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews - Sneha is struggling out here with jobs, evictions, and complicated relationships but she has plans to fix everything.
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by antonia angress, itโs a gorgeous contemporary novel about academia, the messiness of artists trying to survive, and thinks about loneliness openly in a way i havenโt seen before in a novel like this. also, a queer romance plotline :)
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