Luster.

About Luster

Luster is a 2020 debut novel by Raven Leilani. It follows a young black woman who gets involved with a middle-aged white man in an open marriage. Luster was released on August 4, 2020 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It received mainly positive critical reception. It was awarded the 2020 Kirkus Prize for fiction, the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the 2020 John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle Awards, among others.