I felt that way at the beginning of "Luster," the crackling debut novel by Raven Leilani, a 29-year-old writer who sports a nicely tailored prose style and a stinging sense of humor. I want to grab them and say, don't let him do that to you. And they do it so casually that it unleashes my inner grandpa. And so they have sex, often really lousy sex. JOHN POWERS, BYLINE: I can't say for sure when it began - probably with the brouhaha surrounding Lena Dunham's "Girls." But we're riding a crest of books, movies and TV series about bright young women who can't figure out what to do with their brightness. Our critic-at-large John Powers says the novel establishes Leilani as a writer with talent to burn. The book "Luster" by Raven Leilani, a young Black writer, tells the story of a 20-something woman caught between high artistic dreams and a messy personal life. Our critic-at-large John Powers has a review of a debut novel that's causing a stir in literary circles.
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