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Raven Leilani

Broke New York painter Edie starts an affair with an older married man and ends up living in his suburban home with his wife and daughter

  • Literary fiction
  • Funny
  • Dark
  • Big city
  • Identity & belonging
  • Steady
  • Short read
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