Luster

Resource Information

The work Luster represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Luster

Statement of responsibility

Raven Leilani

Creator

• Leilani, Raven

Author

• Leilani, Raven

Subject

• African American women artists
• African American women artists -- Fiction
• Archivists -- Fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Bildungsromans
• Domestic fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Fiction
• Humorous fiction
• Humorous fiction
• Adopted children
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
• United States
• Women forensic pathologists -- Fiction
• Young women -- Sexual behavior
• Young women -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- Fiction
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
• Adopted children -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Humorous fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Bildungsromans

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3612.E35886

LC item number

L87 2020

Literary form

fiction