![]() ![]() Reading this collection of essays and scholarship, I had the distinct sensation of feeling a miraculous brain, with unabashed id and empathy, processing both lived experience and how, as a Black woman, to give yourself over to love of the work. This is one of the rare books that reanimated me during a period when I couldn't read or write. Outline by Rachel Cusk (2014).Ĭusk's first entry in the Outline trilogy is a book that sends you hurtling through the psychic landscape of its speaker as she navigates fraught emotional transactions. This novel was instrumental to my approach to my own book, in the way it presents the desire of women (unvarnished, without apology) but also in its engagement with language and the way this lends itself to texture and sensuality. My Education by Susan Choi (2013).Īn unsparing account of the carnal conspiracy between two gloriously human, difficult women: the 21-year-old narrator and the wife of her poetry professor. The novel, about a young Black woman who begins an affair with a married white man, is now available in paperback. Raven Leilani is the author of Luster, a 2020 best-seller that won the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize. ![]()
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