![]() ![]() Razor sharp, provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster by Raven Leilani is a painfully funny debut about what it means to be young now. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscape of sexual and racial politics as a young black woman wasn't already hard enough, with nowhere else left to go, Edie finds herself falling head-first into Eric's home and family. ![]() And then she meets Eric, a white, middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted black daughter who doesn't have a single person in her life who can show her how to do her hair. In Raven Leilani’s hilarious and very moving debut, Luster, the protagonist is Edie, a young Black woman whose overwhelming desire to live and love is met with abject resistance. No one seems to care that she doesn't really know what she's doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up. She's messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her, painting. However, her love for the written word started many years before she. I love this debut, cant wait for more from Leilani. Signed Edition A standard edition is available here Shortlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize 2021 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 Edie is just trying to survive. Raven Leilani is a fiction author best known for her debut novel Luster published in 2020. This is an unforgettable book, and Leilani is a fearless and daring. ![]()
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