Luster / Raven Leilani.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374194321
- ISBN: 0374194327
- Physical Description: 227 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
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Subject: | African American women artists > Fiction. Young women > Sexual behavior > United States > Fiction. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction. Adopted children > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. Humorous fiction. |
Available copies
- 4 of 4 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Allentown Public Library | LEILANI, REVEN (Text) | 34455006733741 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethlehem Main Library | f (Text) | 33062009335713 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Main Library | LEILANI (Text) | 31901004451904 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Easton Palmer Branch | LEILANI (Text) | 31901004463149 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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