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Luster

Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction

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Razor sharp. provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster is a painfully funny coming-of-age story told by a fresh new voice.

'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal - and brilliant.' - Zadie Smith

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
One of Barack Obama's Favourite Books 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.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
13. April 2022
Sprache
englisch
Seitenanzahl
227
Altersempfehlung
ab 18 Jahre
Autor/Autorin
Raven Leilani
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
175 g
Größe (L/B/H)
196/127/18 mm
Sonstiges
B-format paperback
ISBN
9781529036008

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Raven Leilani

Raven Leilani's work has been published in Granta, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and The Cut, among other publications. Leilani received her MFA from NYU and is currently the Axinn Foundation Writer in Residence there. Luster is her first novel.

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Leilani's story of Edie, a broke 23-year-old black woman who gets involved with a wealthy older white couple, cuts to the quick of the often grim realities of being young and black in the US today. But it's wincingly funny, too . . . Leilani's prose mesmerises; you go with her, wherever she decides to take you . . . A remarkable portrait of the artist as a young woman. Observer

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