Research Catalog
Luster
- Title
- Luster / Raven Leilani.
- Author
- Leilani, Raven
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- 227 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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."--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- African American women artists > Fiction
- African American women > Fiction
- Young women > Sexual behavior > United States > Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction
- Open marriage > Fiction
- Man-woman relationships > Fiction
- Adopted children > Fiction
- Archivists > Fiction
- Women forensic pathologists > Fiction
- Open marriage
- Man-woman relationships
- African American women
- Women forensic pathologists
- Archivists
- Adopted children
- African American women artists
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Young women > Sexual behavior
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Call Number
- Sc D 21-441
- ISBN
- 9780374194321
- 0374194327
- LCCN
- 2020012289
- OCLC
- 1119744688
- Author
- Leilani, Raven, author.
- Title
- Luster / Raven Leilani.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.NOVEL OF URBAN AFRICAN AMER. ARTIST WHO BECOMES ENTANGLED W/ WHITE MAN IN OPEN MARRIAGE. 1ST NOVEL.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 21-441