EAN: 9781529036008

LEILANI RAVEN LUSTER

'A taut  sharp  funny book about being young now. It's brutal - and brilliant.' - Zadie Smith 
author of The Fraud    Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction Winner of the Dylan Thomas
Prize   Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Debut of the Year  'The most delicious
novel I've read' - Candice Carty-Williams  author of Queenie   Edie is just trying to survive.
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. 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.  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. 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.   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.    A
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Guardian   New York Times   New Yorker   Boston Globe   Literary Hub  
Vanity Fair   Los Angeles Times   Glamour   Time   Good Housekeeping   InStyle   NPR  O
Magazine  Buzzfeed   Electric Literature   Town & Country   Wired   New Statesman   Vox   Shelf
Awareness   i-D   BookPage and more.  One of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of the Year

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