Check out Luster by Raven Leilani.
As the Guardian says about her: “I try to replicate a version of sex on the page where the reader feels like a voyeur”
Leilani’s buzzy debut novel Luster follows a young black artist drawn into an open marriage.
“For her, a “special ingredient in sex that really jumps off the screen or the page is an oscillation of power”….”where the excitement of a date is not so much the sex but a decent dinner.”
“She shows off a tattoo from Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle …” on her wrist, “the first piece of real writing that touched me”.”
Read it here…