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Unflinching exploration of a young woman's life.

"Luster" dives into the complexities of modern adulthood with honesty that can be unsettling yet profoundly resonant. Its raw depiction of desires, insecurities, and the search for identity often strikes a chord with readers navigating similar chaotic landscapes of personal and professional realms. If you're drawn to stories that aren't afraid to uncover the gritty aspects of growth and relationships, this book will likely speak to your experiences with an unvarnished truth that's both rare and refreshing.

  • British Book Award Nominee for Fiction: Début (2022)
  • Dylan Thomas Prize (2021)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Award (2020)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2021)
  • Kirkus Prize for Fiction (2020)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction and for Debut Novel (2020)
  • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2021)
  • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize Nominee for Fiction and Poetry (2021)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (2020)
  • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Nominee for Shortlist (2021)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Luster

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ISBN: 9781250798671
Authors: Raven Leilani
Publisher: Picador Paper
Date of Publication: 2021-06-08
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Romance
Related Topics: Feminism, Race
Goodreads rating: 3.51
(rated by 105039 readers)

Description

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.
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Unflinching exploration of a young woman's life.

"Luster" dives into the complexities of modern adulthood with honesty that can be unsettling yet profoundly resonant. Its raw depiction of desires, insecurities, and the search for identity often strikes a chord with readers navigating similar chaotic landscapes of personal and professional realms. If you're drawn to stories that aren't afraid to uncover the gritty aspects of growth and relationships, this book will likely speak to your experiences with an unvarnished truth that's both rare and refreshing.

  • British Book Award Nominee for Fiction: Début (2022)
  • Dylan Thomas Prize (2021)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Award (2020)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2021)
  • Kirkus Prize for Fiction (2020)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction and for Debut Novel (2020)
  • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2021)
  • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize Nominee for Fiction and Poetry (2021)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (2020)
  • PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Nominee for Shortlist (2021)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.