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Book Title: Luster /T
ISBN: 9781529035995
By Author(s):LEILANI RAVEN
By Publisher:PAN MACMILLAN UK
Format:TPB
“There is a universal appeal to [Narrator Ariel] Blake’s performance as Edie, a protagonist who may be her own worst antagonist. Blake’s delivery has an immensely human, relatable quality that makes the listener want the best for Edie as she struggles to make her way in the world.” (AudioFilemagazine, Earphones Award winner)
An instantNew York Timesbest seller
ANew York Timesnotable book of 2020
National Indie best seller
Los Angeles Timesbest seller
Washington Postbest seller
No one wants what no one wants.
And how do we even know what we want? How do we know were ready to take it?
Edie is stumbling her way through her 20s – 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 – withrules.
As if navigating the constantly shifting landscapes of contemporary sexual manners and racial politics werent hard enough, Edie finds herself unemployed and invited into Erics 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.
Irresistibly unruly and strikingly beautiful, razor-sharp and slyly comic, sexually charged and utterly absorbing, Raven LeilanisLusteris 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 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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Ariel Blake narrates, expertly inhabiting Edies knowing and analytical tone, and reveling in the writers winding sentences and caustic one-liners.” (The Guardian)
Exacting, hilarious, and deadly…. A writer of exhilarating freedom and daring. (Zadie Smith,Harpers Bazaar)
“So delicious that it feels illicit…. Raven Leilanis first novel reads like summer: sentences like ice that crackle or melt into a languorous drip; plot suddenly, wildly flying forward like a bike down a hill.” (Jazmine Hughes,The New York Times Book Review)
An irreverent intergenerational tale of race and class thats blisteringly smart and fan-yourself sexy. (Michelle Hart, O: The Oprah Magazine)
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