Luster /
Leilani, Raven,
Luster / Luster. Raven Leilani. - First edition. - 227 pages ; 22 cm.
Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing 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 marriage--with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren't hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Eric's home--though 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. Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her life--her hunger, her anger--in a tumultuous era. It is also a description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent, and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way.
9780374194321
2020012289
African American women artists--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Young women--Sexual behavior--United States--Fiction.
Open marriage--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.
Adopted children--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
New Jersey--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
PS3612.E35886 / L87 2020
813/.6
Luster / Luster. Raven Leilani. - First edition. - 227 pages ; 22 cm.
Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing 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 marriage--with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics weren't hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Eric's home--though 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. Luster is a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her life--her hunger, her anger--in a tumultuous era. It is also a description of how hard it is to believe in your own talent, and the unexpected influences that bring us into ourselves along the way.
9780374194321
2020012289
African American women artists--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Young women--Sexual behavior--United States--Fiction.
Open marriage--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.
Adopted children--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
New Jersey--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
PS3612.E35886 / L87 2020
813/.6