… are you reading now?
Luster by Raven Leilani a novel about a young black woman trying to navigate the worlds of work and love and relationships.
It manages to capture a modern landscape of sexual and racial politics, while also being very funny.
I love reading books with a vivid heroine at the centre and by that I don t mean she has to be perfect, or some stereotype of a strong woman , but just a woman who is unique, complicated and dealing with the business of being alive.
Tracey Thorn (pictured with Max Porter) said she would take the complete works of Elizabeth Taylor or Anthony Powell s A Dance To The Music Of Time to a desert island with her