Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Luster: A Novel is 5th and 6th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 5 |
SMOG Index | Grade 8 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 5 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
The estimated word count of Luster: A Novel is 61,845 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 4 hrs 8 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 6 hrs 53 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 18 mins.
Luster: A Novel - 61,845 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 6 hrs 53 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 4 hrs 8 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 2 hrs 18 mins |
for Luster: A Novel
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERNATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER"So delicious that it feels illicit . . . Raven Leilani’s first novel reads like summer: sentences like ice that crackle or melt into a languorous drip; plot suddenly, wildly flying forward like a bike down a hill." ―Jazmine Hughes, The New York Times Book Review“An irreverent intergenerational tale of race and class that’s blisteringly smart and fan-yourself sexy.” ―Michelle Hart, O: The Oprah MagazineNo one wants what no one wants.And how do we even know what we want? How do we know we’re ready to take it?Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties―sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage―with rules.As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren’t hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Eric’s home―though not by Eric. She becomes a hesitant ally to his wife and a de facto role model to his adopted daughter. Edie may be the only Black woman young Akila knows.Irresistibly unruly and strikingly beautiful, razor-sharp and slyly comic, sexually charged and utterly absorbing, Raven Leilani’s Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her life―her hunger, her anger―in a tumultuous era. It is also a haunting, aching description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent, and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way.