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Raven Leilani

  • None, Author of Luster
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Wrote LUSTER. 2020 Kirkus Prize, Center For Fiction Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize, NBCC First Novel Prize, NBF 5 under 35. instagram.com/raven_leilani
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The Work of Feeling

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By Raven Leilani
| Soundings from The New York Review
In Love, two women fight until they understand their fighting as a pretense to touch. The fighting is a kind of intimacy, an annual rite of slapping, biting, and hair-pulling that eventually gives way to a “realization that the fights did nothing other than allow them to hold each other.” The epiphany that they are longing to hold each other is eclipsed by a more creative violence.
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“Outage,” by Raven Leilani

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By Raven Leilani
| The New Yorker Verified
Even though the atmosphere is made to fail your feelings, I expected weather on the day we buried my brother, the pine box light, too large for what was left of him. Before the burial, I joined my mother and the body in the room that used to be mine, all the clocks wrong from an outage in the night. Wires bedevilled by rain, too late to get to my brother through the machines he used to breathe. He was already gone, already weather, already language my mother needed for the coroner.
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Death of the Party | Raven Leilani

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By Raven Leilani
| n+1 Magazine Verified
In 2020, the year my father and brother died, I discovered a new genre of laughter. It was a kind of laughter that happened to me. Nothing was funny, though it was the year I published my first novel, and the novel had a lot of jokes. Humor, like grief, like poetry, is occasionally a language of dissonance: dissimilar things side by side reflect back on each other some surprise or shared meaning. But there was no apparent meaning in the adjacency of my mourning and erratic, often ill-timed laughter.
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