Luster / Raven Leilani.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Picador, 2020Description: 227 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781529035995 (pbk.)
- 23 813.6 LEI 016634
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 813.6 LEI 016634 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 016634 |
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"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.
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