Who knew it would take the whole first season to actually get to a show where we talk about books? Better late than never, yes? On this week’s episode I talk with Faramola Shonekan primarily about Raven Leilani's National Book Critics Circle Award winning debut novel Luster, but really also about so much more. In true The Sheri Show style too, we check our own ideas by thinking through their underlying assumptions and what we come away with are some solid insights for thinking about young Black female characters in contemporary novels and the people who write them.