«La novela que por fin explica qué es ser joven hoy. Una escritora absolutamente brutal.» —Zadie Smith
Edie, una joven afroamericana de 23 años, tiene una aventura con Eric, un hombre blanco casado de 41. El hogar no se rompe. Este matrimonio privilegiado, pero progresista, la invita a trabajar en su casa. El hogar, lleno de tensiones y descubrimientos, se convierte en otra cosa.
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Ganador de los premios NBCC John Leonard Prize, Kirkus, Premio Primera Novela de The Center for Fiction, Premio Dylan Thomas, y el VCU Cabell al mejor debut.
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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.
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.