Luster : A Novel
240 pages |Ā HardcoverĀ
Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel,Ā Luster,Ā sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage
No one wants what no one wants.
And how do we even know what we want? How do we know weāre ready to take it?
Edie is stumbling her way through her twentiesāsharing 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 marriageāwithĀ rules.
As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics werenāt hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Ericās homeāthough 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 LeilaniāsĀ LusterĀ is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her lifeāher hunger, her angerāin 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.
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$5.95Luster : A Novel
240 pages |Ā HardcoverĀ
Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel,Ā Luster,Ā sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage
No one wants what no one wants.
And how do we even know what we want? How do we know weāre ready to take it?
Edie is stumbling her way through her twentiesāsharing 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 marriageāwithĀ rules.
As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics werenāt hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Ericās homeāthough 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 LeilaniāsĀ LusterĀ is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her lifeāher hunger, her angerāin 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.
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240 pages |Ā HardcoverĀ
Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel,Ā Luster,Ā sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage
No one wants what no one wants.
And how do we even know what we want? How do we know weāre ready to take it?
Edie is stumbling her way through her twentiesāsharing 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 marriageāwithĀ rules.
As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics werenāt hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Ericās homeāthough 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 LeilaniāsĀ LusterĀ is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her lifeāher hunger, her angerāin 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.
