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Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.

I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and today is the Stacks Book Club Day. We are joined once again by co-host of the Two Black Girls One Rose podcast and friend of this pod,

Justine K, to discuss our pick, Lester by Raven Layloni.

Lester is a striking debut novel that dives into the messy and complicated life of Eadie,

a young black woman trying to figure things out in New York City who decides it's a good

idea for her to enter into a relationship with a married man who is in an open relationship with his wife.

The book brings us all sorts of juicy and divisive situations, bad decisions, power dynamics,

racial implications, and more. We talk about it all today with Justine, and there are spoilers on this episode.

Be sure to listen to the end of today's episode to find out what our December

book club pick will be.

And a quick reminder, everything we talk about on today's episode, like books, pop

culture, everything, you can find that in the links in the show notes.

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